Hallo, Tas Pas hat gesagt: // Tas Pas wrote:
I have a [soundfiler] object which needs two arguements: the sample name and the array to load the sample to.
Ah, I had overlooked your attachements. There you test a lot of different things, which is a very good thing to do. To help you understand what's going on a bit:
If you have an abstraction, in your case "vars2.pd" and if you use this as [vars2 one], then every occurence of $1 at the start of a word inside every *object box* of vars2.pd will be replaced by "one", the first argument. So for example an object [table $1] will create a table called "one". In fact you can see the [table $1] as if you would have written [table one] in this case. An object [$1] will make Pd try to create an object called [one] which probably will be an unknown object and generate an error.
It is important to note, that only real *objects* are handled like this: the things you create with Put->Object, which I like to write as [object] in square brackets.
Occurences of $1 in *messages* like [a message with $1( are *not* replaced with the creation argument "one"! This is very important.
Dollars in message boxes are only replaced by something else, if this message box receives a message. How to replace the dollar-variable depends on the *incoming message* not on the abstraction's creation arguments. Sending a message "123" to the message from above will always make it send along "a message with 123", regardless of what else is going on in your patch.
Ciao
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