[PD] passing multiple arugments to new_ routine

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Charles Henry hat gesagt: // Charles Henry wrote:

> okay, Thanks, Frank
> I'll route these questions to the right list, from now on (except this
> message).  and I think I uderstand how this will work now.... in this
> example:
> static void *route_new(t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom *argv)
> 
> int argc is the count of the number of arguments, and t_atom *argv
> must be the vector of arguments themselves.  (this I'm inferring from
> seeing it in code)  I still don't get what t_symbol *s is for, yet.

I think, s holds the name of the object, "route" in this case. IIR
it's required if you construct an object with "A_GIMME"-arguments.

This is taken from IOhannes Externals-Howto: 

  The arguments of the constructor-method depend on the object-arguments
  defined with class_new.
      
      +----------------------------------------------------------+
      | class_new-argument | constructor-argument
      |
      |--------------------+-------------------------------------|
      | A_DEFFLOAT         | t_floatarg f
      |
      |--------------------+-------------------------------------|
      | A_DEFSYMBOL        | t_symbol *s
      |
      |--------------------+-------------------------------------|
      | A_GIMME            | t_symbol *s, int argc, t_atom *argv
      |
      +----------------------------------------------------------+

Ciao
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