hu! i tried the 'field fred symbol' which by itself works but when i want to append fred something, i always get no method for: 'bla', 'symbol bla', 'set bla', 'send bla' , i dont know .. ;) also i get an error on painting with the symbol field ...?

i just wanted to make sort of a hashtable .. keeping a 2-field list of id's (numbers) and clientnames (strings) ..

anyhow, i done this differently now.

but i have this other strange thing going on right now, where when i open a certain patch, a rather extended one , pd falls into this weird mode where it wont let me do anything. ;)) but when i open any other patch before i open that one, all is fine. ok. i cant really track it down yet ..

the open/close messages are working top thou and i can trigger an external program to render my .pd files on request via a local netsend .. mhm well, ltr.

-#- �\I forgot to answer the second question, whether you can have symbols �\in lists. I've never tried it, but you should be able to say �"field fred symbol" and you'll get a field named "fred" whose �\value is a symbol. But since I haven't tested that yet, I bet �\it will fail; I'll look after I finish the exciting job of putting �\ALSA support back in...