Well, how literally ? objectmaker is the collection of all object-creation methods ("creators") of all classes. objectbox contents are considered to be messages to be sent to objectmaker. What is $1 substituting to ? is $1 happening to be standing for a symbol, by mistake ?
See my other message - ideally, u_dispatcher, the helper abstraction that distributes arguments to patches after using u_makepoly to make them polyphonic, should be able to dispatch symbols. Right now, it appears limited to only lists and floats. I need to dispatch symbols in order to pass the array name for playback of the sound buffer (in this case for a granular synth, but the same would be potentially true for a sampled instrument).
Unless there's a better way I'm missing.
Peter