[PD] Escaping/not resolving dollar argts in msgs/objects?

[Ingo Stock]

On 05/20/2018 02:12 PM, Derek Kwan wrote:
> As a side note, I don't really particular about this situation right now
> and don't have a use case as of yet, but it looks like both the $$
> approach and the tosymbol approach don't work with trying to insert
> literal "$0, $1, $2" and so on in [text]s the "patching" sort of way via
> [text insert]? You can enter those literals just fine via the popup Pd
> text window and those will save just fine, but both the $$ and tosymbol
> methods via [text insert] yield input that looks to be their escaped
> \$0, \$1 versions within the popup Pd text window and then when you try
> to save the contents of that window they get resolved (so $0 goes to 0
> and $1 yields \\$1: argument number out of range warnings).

Yes, the escape mechanism seems to be a bit quirky at times. For
example, in the attached patch create-arrays5.pd, the array names are
being created the way described above in the thread and put into a
[text] object, where they occur escaped. The contents of the [text] can
be saved with the patch. If you create the arrays from the [text] after
writing to it, the arrays are created fine. But if you reload the patch,
$0 is escaped in the array objects, although the contents of [text] look
exactly the same. Maybe a bug, maybe some quirk.

Anyhow, there is a solution for writing $0 into [text] and easily
generate objects from there that is robust against saving the [text]
contents with the patch, using [text fromlist], which is demonstrated in
the attached patch create-arrays7.pd. :)

best wishes, ingo

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