[PD-dev] width control breaks parsing with [textfile]

[Miller Puckette]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:09:26PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Mit, 2013-07-03 at 08:58 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > Just to stir the pot, as it were :) -
> > 
> > The 'f' message is intended to mean 'format' and could be expanded to
> > specify font style and size, and/or other formatting info (perhaps even to
> > suppress carriage return on semi, think of that!)
> 
> In order to prepare myself for the future: Do you intend to keep the
> un-escaped comma to separate box content from format data?
> 
> Roman

It's a hack.  I'm thinking about someday building it into the regular
"obj" etc. messages - but this would require making up all new names for
those messages which would make backwards compatibility tricky.  So for the
next while at least I think the trailing message is the way to go.

cheers
Miller