Hi,
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:35:19PM -0400, sonia yuditskaya wrote:
I am trying to make a gaggle of objects and some of them have spun out with rather long names ([renderDepthSelector] is one example).
Just a quick note: as operating systems treat upper- and lowercase in filenames differently (Linux is picky and will not load renderDepthSelector.pd for an object called [renderdepthselector], while Windows and OS-X will do), I try to avoid uppercase in abstraction names.
It seems helpful to keep that name for the object (as it may make the thing more self explanatory), but I would also like to make an option for it to form with an abbreviation (say [rds]) analogous to the way [trigger] and [t] function. Do any of you brilliant minds know how to do that by any chance?
I assume that you talk of abstractions here. You could do wrapper abstractions. For example rds.pd would just look like
[inlet] | [renderDepthSelector $1 ...] | [outlet]
Or you go with operating system features: On *nix systems you could use a symbolic link like "ln -s renderDepthSelector.pd rds.pd". Of course this is machine-dependent.
Ciao
Frank