Not sure how I missed that in the documentation/source code!
Thanks very much it works perfectly with both char and const char.

Regards

Matt

Olaf Matthes wrote:

Hi Matthew,

in case your fuction gets the hostname as 't_symbol *s', the code would
look like this:

char *host = s->s_name;

I'm not shure if this would work with 'const char'...,
In case you pass it a list (t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom, argv):

char *host = atom_getsymbolarg(i, argc, argv); /* with i = 0 to get the
first element in the list */

Olaf

PS: you can send me your code off the list and I'll have a look at it

Matthew Paradis schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to port a number of my jMax externals to pd. I'm
> having a problem when setting up some of my network objects which take
> as object arguments the host name followed by the port number. For
> example [socksenddgs localhost 6537].
> I need to assign this argument to a const char, however it will not
> allow me to initialise the variable.
> In jMax it works in the following way;
>
> const char *host;
> int port;
> socksenddgs_t *this = (socksenddgs_t *)o;
> this->sockfd = -1;
> host = fts_symbol_name(fts_get_symbol_arg( ac, at, 1,0));
> port = fts_get_int_arg( ac, at, 2, 0);
>
> Any ideas or examples of converting string type arguments from the
> object would be much appreciated
>
> Matt
>
> --
>
> Matthew Paradis
> University of York
> Music Department
> Heslington,
> York,
> YO10 5DD,
> UK
> Tel: 0044-1904-43-2435
> mdjp100@york.ac.uk
>
>

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Matthew Paradis
University of York
Music Department 
Heslington, 
York, 
YO10 5DD, 
UK                      
Tel: 0044-1904-43-2435         
mdjp100@york.ac.uk