Also, it sounds like you are coming from a standard programming background. Pd works differently, so you don't really think about variables so much, but rather messages and how they flow.

Here's a quick summary of $ vars:

• In an object box, $ vars represent the creation arguments of that

patch. (You can see the creation arguments at the top of the patch's window, next to its filename)

• In a message box, $ var represent the elements of a list that that

message box receives.

But yeah, you should read or reread those docs.

.hc

On Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004, at 12:51 America/New_York, Josh Steiner wrote:

i dont think you quite understand $'s yet, you should go reread 14.dollarsigns.pd and /pd/doc/1.manual/x2.htm#s6.5 again

-josh

Adrian deCleir wrote:

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this is a real beginner question but i cant see it in the help files

to creat a symbol I make message box and write (symbol 123456) By doing this, $1 represents 123456 anywhere in my programme

so how do I make a new variable?? As in how can I have maybe $2(or anything) represent a new number like 56789?

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