On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:25 -0400, Martin Peach wrote:
Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:09 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
(the only difference i know of is troubles with special-characters when using single-object externals)
there is also the issue, that aliases are not (completely) supported by pd-extended, afaik.
Seems to me weird characters always cause trouble somewhere along the line. Why not rename them [lt~] and [gt~]? Then there's something in gridflow I think that actually uses * in its name, I mean why not make an external with the three-character name [ctl-alt-del]? Martin
why not calling them [greater_than_tilde] and [less_than_tilde] ?
anyway, the alias problem is not related to 'weird' (whoever decides, which are considered weird and which not) characters. when loading mulit-class externals, all the names get registered, so that pd already knows about the name, when instantiating an alias. in pd-extended, it works as well, but you have to first load the external by its original name, so that the alias gets registeredl. if you first try to instantiate by the alias name, then pd doesn't know what external to load. (sorry, if i use wrong terminology here and 'to register' means something different).
roman
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