[PD] A dollarsign problem, please help!

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Joe Newlin hat gesagt: // Joe Newlin wrote:

> I think the problem there is that you have $0 in the message object. You
> can't use $0 in messages. You need to replace $0 in the message with $1 (or
> $2, depending on where in the message the variable is), put a [f $0]
> upstream of the message ( to "capture" the actual number given to the
> particular instance of $0) and then use [trigger] and [pack]. For example:
> 
> [openpanel]
> |
> [trigger s b]
> |              |
> |              [f $0]
> |              |
> [pack s f  ]

Btw. you can also directly use [pack s $0] here. I also often use [list
append $0] when building messages that need the value of $0.

Ciao
-- 
Frank