[PD-dev] understanding canvas_objtext() in g_text.c

[Miller Puckette]

I think you just need getfn(&pd_objectmaker, gensym("drip")) -- or
the variant zgetfn if more convenient.

cheers
M

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:28:01PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:49 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>I am trying to track down the path of loading a new object.
> >>>>Basically,
> >>>>where does a class name get tested to see if a .pd_linux needs to  
> >>>>be
> >>>>loaded or not?  For example, if I type [drip], where does it look
> >>>>to see
> >>>>whether it needs to load drip.pd_linux?
> >>>>
> >>>>Right now, I am staring at the top of canvas_objtext() and not  
> >>>>quite
> >>>>getting it.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>hmm, do you want to know when exactly Pd decides whether it already
> >>>has
> >>>the "drip" objectclass registered or whether it needs t invoke the
> >>>loader-mechanism?
> >>>
> >>>an objectclass (or rather: it's name) is basically a method for the
> >>>"pd_objectmaker". if it has no method registered for "drip", then it
> >>>will fallback to it's anything-method (new_anything), which will  
> >>>call
> >>>the registered loaders and finally tries to open the "drip" as an
> >>>abstraction.
> >>>
> >>>mfgasr
> >>>IOhannes
> >>
> >>Ok, that makes sense now.  So where does this registration with
> >>pd_objectmaker happen? That's what I am looking for, but couldn't  
> >>find.
> >>
> >>.hc
> >>
> >in class_new() -- which is called when the extern is loaded.
> >
> >cheers
> >M
> 
> 
> Of course, I'd never bridged that gap in my brain before... one last  
> plea for help:  I am trying to figure out a way to look up the  
> newmethod when I only have a char *classname.  I think binbuf_eval()  
> just executes the newmethod based on the char *classname, but I want  
> to get the pointer to the newmethod.
> 
> .hc
> 
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