Re: [PD] Change box type keeping its content

You are actually right. It appears that obj cannot become a msg... Something to look into...

Ico

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:51 -0300, Caio Barros wrote:

You are saying to write "msg" before the text I was writing and realized that I wanted a message box? (sorry, non native english speaker here) Suposing that's what you meant, it didn't work, at least in Pd-extended 0.42.5

Caio Barros

2011/3/10 Ivica Ico Bukvic ico@vt.edu Prepend the contents with msg (don't forget the space between msg and contents) then activate object to be recreated.

    Ico


    Caio Barros <caio.barros@gmail.com> wrote:

    >Some of you probably went to the same problem I do.
    >Sometimes I automatically press Ctrl+1 and start writing
    stuff. Them I
    >realize that what I needed was a Message Box (Ctrl+2) and not
    the Object
    >Box.
    >If it was possible to change the box type without changing
    its content it
    >would be great.
    >I know that I can edit the pd file in a text editor to do
    that. But often
    >this takes more time than to create a message box and write
    everything
    >again.
    >
    >Caio Barros
    >

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