[PD] turn a symbol to a message

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Sun Feb 21 10:55:51 CET 2010


Somehow you managed to create a symbol "open file.wav" (with a space in
between). Usually a space character is used as a delimiter for
separating the elements of a Pd message. However, when the space
character is part of the symbol itself, which is only possible to do by
using [makefilename], it cannot serve as a delimiter between the 'open'
part and the 'file.wav' part anymore. 
What [readsf~] expects is a message with the 'open' method with the
first argument being the filename, for instance 'file.wav'. A message
box with the following content could work:

[open file.wav(

But you also could compose such a message without using [makefilename]:

[symbol file.wav(
|
[open $1(

or:

[symbolbox\
|
[open $1(

Traditionally, [makefilename] was used to compose the filename part (not
the whole message), for example when you used some kind of a template
for filenames, for instance fileX.wav, where X would have been a 
number.  

[numberbox\ <- 40
|
[makefilename file%d.wav]
|
[open $1(

-> open file40.wav

However, with modern versions of Pd, variable substitution within symbol
elements works as well, which is even simpler:

[numberbox\
|
[open file$1.wav( 

Another case, which you still need [makefilename] for, is when you would
like the number part of the composed message to be fixed-length:

[numberbox\ <- 91
|
[makefilename file%04d.wav]
|
[open $1(

->  open file0090.wav

Hope that helps
Roman




On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 20:01 +0100, Ignacio Lois wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I've been pulling my hair out for a while with an inexplicable
> problem.
> I'm trying to build an [open file.wav( message to feed a [readsf~]
> object.
> A [makefilename] object is returning the exact symbol. I'm connecting
> it to a [$1( message, and then onto the [readsf~] object and I get the
> error: "readsf~_ no method for 'open file.wav'
> If I replace the $1 message for the hard coded "open file.wav", it
> works perfectly.
> What am I doing wrong?






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