Dan wrote:
I am trying to [select a b c 1 2 3]
According to the PD documentation, this is possible if I send all symbols.
From select help:
" Notice that "400" here is defined as a symbol data type and the [select] object can successfully match it to the creation argument."
But if I add a [symbol 300{ it gets a match at 400 (the first float in the select). When I have
[sel a 1 b 2]
I can successfully find both a and b, but any numbers I send, as symbols, get caught at 1.
alright. you should not (cannot, must not) mix symbols and floats with [select]/[route].
you have 2 problems: the simple one is, that [symbol 400( does _not_ create a symbol "400", but instead something different (i think it used to be a symbol "float", but it is not with pd-0.38; it looks (with [print]) like it is an empty symbol but i don't think it actually is); if you really want to create a symbol "401" you will have to use [makefilename %d]
the more complicated one is with [select]: if you do [sel a 1 b 2] it is actually [sel a "float" b "float"] and each that comes in will match against "float" (don't take the "float" literally though)
It behaves like this in both .3.7 and .3.8. I was starting to draw a workaround and thought I'd mention it. Am I missing something?
the workaround is to use 2 cascaded [select]s, one for symbols, the other for floats.
mfg.a.sr IOhannes