[PD] how to pack symbols together and eliminate the space?

[Kevin McCoy]

Thanks Roman - nice consolidation.

And thanks everyone else - when I have a minute I am going to finish
the patch :)  NOW if I could only get it to stay the same size as the
GOP bounds.. a big creation argument makes the object box really long!
 Anyone know any tricks with that?  I haven't tried different
versions.

Kevin

On 4/5/07, Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:
> this thread is getting a bit funny and people start to be afraid about
> [makesymbol] being deprecated ;-)
>
> as i understand IOhannes, there is nothing wrong with [makesymbol] (nor
> with any other proposed solution). i think, he just wanted to point out
> that when externals are involved anyway - [makesymbol] from zexy in that
> specific case - , one could also use [l2s] - also from zexy - for that
> task, which could be considered as more straight forward. i assume, it
> was never meant to say, that [makesymbol] will be kicked out from zexy
> with growing (>0.40) pd version nor with growing zexy versions (actually
> 2.1 iirc).
>
> so, take the solution of your choice:
>
> [makesymbol]: needs zexy
> [makefilename]: a bit more complicated (see franks suggestion), but
> works only with internals
> [l2s]: needs zexy as well
> [$1$2(: only internals, but works only with pd >= 0.40
>
> i hope, i could make things a bit clearer now.
>
> roman
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:05 +0200, Steffen wrote:
> > On 05/04/2007, at 16.12, hard off wrote:
> >
> > > i have so many patches with makesymbol constructs.  personally i hope
> > > it stays in there just so i don't have to go and redo them all when i
> > > upgrade to 0.40
> >
> > makesymbol is zexy. So you won't loose if you upgrade Pd and keep
> > zexy. If im not mistaken. Unless you mean that makesymbol was kicked
> > out of zexy version 0.40 and then got back in later on. This is
> > getting hairy.
> >
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