thank you both, 
that clears things out,

best,

J

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Ricardo Dueñas Parada <rduenasp@gmail.com> wrote:
That´s right, it works on windows 0.40.3-extended-20080502.

_Ricardo

2008/5/3 Andy Farnell <padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk>:


$ is only understood within a string > 0.39, otherwise
the string must start with $, so it's a version thing.

On Sat, 3 May 2008 20:37:36 -0700
"Jaime Oliver" <jaime.oliver2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I think I have encountered a strange cross-platform (or cross-version)
> inconsistency, maybe someone can correct me:
>
> I have an abstraction:
>
> [abs 1] //// abs is the name of the abstraction and 1 is an argument
>
> and inside it I have:
>
> [r on$1]
>
> SO, when i send from a message box in the main patch the message:
>
> ; on1 5
>
> I would expect to receive the number 5 in the abstraction.
>
> RESULT
>
> In OSX in a powerbook ppc / Pd-0.41-2 .................................it
> works perfectly!
> In Windows XP (64bit quadcore) / Pd-extended-0.39.3 ............it doesn't
> work.
> It says error: on1: no such object.
>
> I will probably try it in fedora tomorrow and let you know...
>
> Any ideas why, does this feature usually works for windows users?
> attached is a small example patch if anyone would like to try...
>
> best,
>
> J
>
>
>
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>
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