apart from that, i am an oldie user and i never really needed to type backslashes (but i admit that it might be weird when you first come to it)
mfg.a.dsr IOhannes
hi IOhannes, others, maybe you did not need, because you knew, it was not possible... I posted just the same thing on sunday night (never post something on weekend, if you want that it be read by the "special task forces" (...) you need that kind of characters for dynamic created patches and in connection of pd with other programs.
<snip> The handling of some characters in messages is really a pain. for some externals I need to create messages, which should output $0, $1 and so on. of course there are work arounds. but easier would be to have an escape character like $ or whatever. today I needed to produce the character combination \, (backslash followed by a comma). which I needed for dynamical creation of a special object in dyn~. <snip> thanks for help. marius.