[PD-dev] simple external question (how to make an inlet acess a function)

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em qui, 8 de nov de 2018 às 15:07, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
escreveu:

> OK, if you want to be sure, you can use something like gensym("\a")
> instead. if you want to be really sure, use the mongolian vowel seperator
> or the MD5 hash of your Pd executable.
>

Right, I get the hack, thanks for the suggestion, seems like gensym("\f")
is safe enough, I wouldn't really know how to do it, although seems Pd now
deals with "\", but I really didn't get how so.

Anyway, seems like the only true way of working around this limitation is
with "proxy", and, yeah, not worth it :)

cheers


>
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 08. November 2018 um 17:41 Uhr
> > Von: "IOhannes m zmölnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> > An: pd-dev at lists.iem.at
> > Betreff: Re: [PD-dev] simple external question (how to make an inlet
> acess a function)
> >
> > On 11/8/18 5:25 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
> > > there's no way around class_addmethod
> >
> > indeed, that's the way Pd works (or use proxy objects. shudder)
> >
> >
> > > but you can use gensym("") if you want to prevent the user from
> invoking the code via a message.
> > > note that you can't do that for more than one inlet, obviously.
> >
> > actually it's pretty easy (although probably unusual) to invoke such a
> > method:
> >
> > [symbol(
> > |
> > [$1 foo bar baz(
> > |
> >
> > gfmdsar
> > IOhannes
> >
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