[PD] clarification on [coll] object - doesn't seem to be global

[Miller Puckette]

I think you can do that by searching for the symbol to get the line number.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 05:28:36PM -0700, Scott R. Looney wrote:
> Actually I did just look through the text object and as far as I can tell
> there???s no way to retrieve an address that???s a symbol - every example I saw
> on the help file used a number address or line numbers. I???m not against
> using vanilla but I want to lookup parameters by name and the list may
> change length. Plus I???m using a variety of externals like iemlib???s vcf,
> else???s rm~ soundhack???s delay+ and ceammc???s matrix~. Maybe at some point in
> the future I???ll rack my brain trying to figure out how to create these in
> vanilla but I can???t say I???d be looking forward to it.
> 
> Best,
> Scott
> 
> On Saturday, May 11, 2019, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > And how about you not being able to do this with [text]? You sure?
> >
> > Of course cyclone provides many solutions not available in vanilla, and is
> > a legacy/important external library. But I guess cyclone has more of a
> > place for those who are coming from Max and don't want to bother much in
> > learning another way of doing something.
> >
> > Em s??b, 11 de mai de 2019 ??s 14:37, Scott R. Looney <
> > scottrlooney at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> >> sorry gents - i was pretty sure it happened but it seems to be working
> >> fine now. i could not reproduce the error a second time with a new setup
> >> and when i went back to my misbehaving patch it was behaving properly
> >> again. i had started in a subpatcher originally, and had copied [coll] to
> >> another subpatcher when it happened. as far as versions was using PD
> >> vanilla 0.49.1 on macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra using latest Deken of Alex's
> >> cyclone refresh (0.3). i'm not filing as a bug until i can get it to
> >> reproduce reliably. thanks for checking, anyway!
> >>
> >> best,
> >> scott
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:15 AM Alexandre Torres Porres <
> >> porres at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Em s??b, 11 de mai de 2019 ??s 05:13, IOhannes m zm??lnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> >>> escreveu:
> >>>
> >>>> unable to reproduce.
> >>>> please share an example patch that exhibits the problem.
> >>>> also, since there is no native [coll] object in Pd, you really should
> >>>> specify which library you are using (and which exact version thereof).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> can't replicate it either in cyclone 0.3
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