I sent another post with a mistake because I didn´t remember how worked the original patch, so I repeat here why I need the backslash. I started pure data trying to port some patches that I did with MaxMSP. One of these has an "expr" object with the following syntax:
expr 440 * pow(2,0.583333) or, in another point: expr pow(2,$f1)
where 2 is the mantissa and, separated by a backslash and a comma, there is the exponent. But, looking at the "pow" help file, I have realized that I can separate the two elements just with a comma and a space, so... Thanks for your help, even if it was completely a newbie question!!! Best regards Libero Mureddu
-- Original Message -- To: libero.mureddu3@fastwebnet.it Subject: Re: [PD] newbie question about "dropped" Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:58:06 +0200 (CEST) From: zmoelnig@iem.at Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Zitiere libero.mureddu3@fastwebnet.it:
Hello! I'm a new user of pure-data. I'm using the last Hans-Christoph Steiner version Pd-0.38-2hcs0 on a ibook g3 800, and I cannot put a backslash in a patch. I receive the message "dropped".
since you get such a nice message, you might eventually wonder whether this behaviour is on purpose. and indeed it is.
why would anybody want to use backslashes ? most likely, even with turning the dropping off by hacking the source code, you will not be able to use it as an escape character. in the current state of pd, escaping characters is totally unresolved.
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