Hi Joel,

On 14/05/15 11:45, Joel Corelitz wrote:

I’m able to route everything I need to in Max this way so some of this
is admittedly due to not understanding the different ways Pd handles the
data.

It's super annoying, but what is actually coming from oscparse is a

"symbol" not a float. In Pd there is currently no way to re-cast a

symbol-float atom back to what it looks like, so instead you'll have to

manually create one of these "symbol" floats to compare against, which

you can do with a message through makefilename like this:

[42(

[makefilename %d]

into the right inlet of your 'route'.

This will route on the "symbol" 42.

I submitted a patch to Miller to allow [f] to cast those symbol-floats

back to floats (since there are now 3 different ways to accidentally or

purposely create a symbol-float) a while back but I think he thinks

there is a better way of handling this situation.

Cheers,

Chris.