[PD] escape characters in messages

Smoerk smoerk at gmx.de
Sun Oct 13 12:51:23 CEST 2002


The possibility to write any string, would be very useful to have. We 
need it for filenames, etc. Also PD is used for more and more things and 
it would be nice, if you could write any arbitrary string:
"Blabla !;*,%2\" asdas "

For example Olaf's Oggcast~ where I have to use = or _ for spaces.

Miller Puckette wrote:
> Good idea...  Maybe, just "addcomma" would be best.  I'm against adding
> a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design
> that obviate teh need for it...
> 
> cheers
> Miller







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