On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
wouldn't need weird hacks in the pd source; but if anyone wanted to reimplement old-style messageboxes, they'd need to find a way to disable $-substitution in that case.
you can get the "unparsed" arguments during runtime (though after creation time) just fine. this is what every save-routine does (unless somebody decides to really save 1053 instead of $0)
Yes, I thought of that, but just try it, you'll see: it'll complain about missing $1, $2, etc. as you try making such messageboxes, because the $-substitution does happen anyway even if you ignore it. Even though it technically would work, no-one would want to put up with those error messages.
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