[PD] passing multiple arugments to new_ routine

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Dec 4 06:45:00 CET 2006


On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Charles Henry wrote:

> 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. Thanks,

The s stands for selector, it's the name of the method. In the case of 
object construction, the selector is the name of the class you're trying 
to instantiate, else it's whatever the leading symbol of the message is 
(e.g. "list" or "symbol" or "set" or "open" or...)

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