On 8/14/01 12:38 PM, "Yves Degoyon*" ydegoyon@audientia.com wrote:

Well, hello, hope you had your third coffee now because I think Nicolas meant making a table with a $1 in its name

( I know Nicolas a little bit ).

Unfortunately I left the house after only one coffee.... Don't ask about the consequences....

On 8/14/01 6:08 PM, "Yves Degoyon" degoyon@freesurf.fr wrote:

Hi, Miller,

I tried to follow your instructions but although the names correctly expands when used as variables in tabwrite~, tabread~,... they don't expand when referring to the array name itself, e.g. var expands to "1001-bigsample" but array name expands to "0-bigsample" although what's written in the patdh is

X array $0-bigsample 100 float 1;

it wouldn't work with :

X array $0-bigsample 100 float 1;

which really means "$0-bigsample", o' course.

Any hint ??

Yeah. I tested your patches... I think this works if you create the array inside the table object: [table $0-bigsample] (it didn't work for me as well when creating simply an array named $0-bigsample).

The tabwrite~ objects inside that patch need to have $0-bigsample argument as well.

Attached is a solution to your problem (note that I added adc~ for testing). Lemme know if it works...

Also, in this case you don't need to add arguments your abstractions as your arrays get named automatically.

However, I don't know of a way of supplying creation arguments to messages (is there a way???) so your message will not work as you expected. Therefore, AFAIK, the bang to the [openpanel] will not work as expected (in fact, when I was playing with this pd has returned an error saying "inlet: no method for symbol". I moved the openpanel into the abstraction (I did that while replying to the message so this change is not in the attachment, should I have included it?) and then it worked when sending bang into the inlet). So my suggestion is to make an argument $1-bigsample where you supply an argument and everything gets named after that argument (you gave an argument anyways...) and you can use that little trick with symbol->makefilename to make sure the message gets sent properly. If there's a more elegant way of doing this I'd be interested in it.

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