[PD-dev] getting the classname in an class

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> 
>> See attached external and Pd patch for a solution (workaround?) using 
>> an A_GIMME constructor, at least with pd-miller-0.40-2...
> 
> This is because the first argument of the constructor is the same thing 
> as the first element of the binbuf of the object, as that element is the 
> selector in the message that is sent to [objectmaker]. So it does like 
> what our latest solutions do, but because you get it from the 
> constructor, you can only use it in the constructor or you have to store 
> it. but it's already stored in the object, as the first element of the 
> binbuf, so...

Ah, I didn't quite understand what was going on.  Thanks for clarification.

(I was going to say requiring non-m_pd.h files was bad, but that's no 
issue for modifying Pd itself...)

Thanks,


Claude
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