I think you just need getfn(&pd_objectmaker, gensym("drip")) -- or
the variant zgetfn if more convenient.cheers M On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:28:01PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Miller Puckette wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner > >wrote: > >> > >>On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:49 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >> > >>>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >>>> > >>>>I am trying to track down the path of loading a new object. > >>>>Basically, > >>>>where does a class name get tested to see if a .pd_linux needs to > >>>>be > >>>>loaded or not? For example, if I type [drip], where does it look > >>>>to see > >>>>whether it needs to load drip.pd_linux? > >>>> > >>>>Right now, I am staring at the top of canvas_objtext() and not > >>>>quite > >>>>getting it. > >>>> > >>> > >>>hmm, do you want to know when exactly Pd decides whether it already > >>>has > >>>the "drip" objectclass registered or whether it needs t invoke the > >>>loader-mechanism? > >>> > >>>an objectclass (or rather: it's name) is basically a method for the > >>>"pd_objectmaker". if it has no method registered for "drip", then it > >>>will fallback to it's anything-method (new_anything), which will > >>>call > >>>the registered loaders and finally tries to open the "drip" as an > >>>abstraction. > >>> > >>>mfgasr > >>>IOhannes > >> > >>Ok, that makes sense now. So where does this registration with > >>pd_objectmaker happen? That's what I am looking for, but couldn't > >>find. > >> > >>.hc > >> > >in class_new() -- which is called when the extern is loaded. > > > >cheers > >M > > > Of course, I'd never bridged that gap in my brain before... one last > plea for help: I am trying to figure out a way to look up the > newmethod when I only have a char *classname. I think binbuf_eval() > just executes the newmethod based on the char *classname, but I want > to get the pointer to the newmethod. > > .hc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The arc of history bends towards justice. - Dr. Martin Luther > King, Jr. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
