So, tried other things, and I see it won't be able to deal with messages including "$0" like [qlist]. So the reason must be not related to [qlist] or [textfile], but the way Pd handles (or doesn't handle) $0 in messages.

The only workaround is to forcely insert $0 with [makefilename], but then all symbols have to be local.

cheers


2014-04-02 20:49 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>:
By the way, haven't been really able to make it work well with [textfile]. If you get a symbol with $0-symbol from a text file, you can't use it to work as an address for [send].


2014-04-02 19:00 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>:

> or you could build your own [qlist] based on [text]...
> no need to change the old and  rusty code of the original [qlist].

I get the workaround, but [qlist] is built for sequencing and simpler for that (like, it can easily set the tempo), and I still think it wouldn't hurt to make it more flexible. It'd be totally backwards compatible. 

Although I assume I don't think I get the hassle it'd be to do that. I'm still struggling to see what could be so tricky to make "$0" possible to work in messages, sorry :P

cheers

2014-04-02 13:50 GMT-03:00 IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>:
On 04/02/2014 05:43 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>> See also the 'text' object in 0.45 that does $ expansion :)
>
> on it ;)
>
> Now, so it seems, at least [qlist] could be upgarded any time to do the
> expansion, right? That wouldn't hurt, would it?

or you could build your own [qlist] based on [text]...no need to change
the old and rusty code of the original [qlist].

dsar
IOhannes


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