Frank Barknecht said:
[something $1-foo $2-bar(
I take it that you actually mean [something $1-foo $2-bar], as [this( notation is more common for messages, whereas [that] describes objects.
oops, yeah, you're right. shouldn't have written this before my first cup of coffee...
You probably read it in the html manual which everyone (hopefully) reads first.
thanks - i couldn't find it in the .pd documentation, didn't think to pull out that html manual again.
No, you cannot do as you describe above. But depending on what you actually want to achieve, there are alternate ways with getting what you want by using [makefilename]. There is no way to expand object arguments when the $x is not at the beginning.
ah right, like this:
[loadbang] | [int $1] | [makefilename foo-$d]
then rather than use that as a creation argument i'd have to send it as a message to the place where i need it. this would be sufficient for me though. thanks for the pointer.
-d