> Passing such a symbol to jack_connect through [shell] ends with: > > ERROR ardour:send\ 1/audio_out\ 1 not a valid port
But [shell] doesn't need symbols, you can pass a plain message to it such as [ardour:send 7/audio_in 1( without escaping spaces, with perhaps a [list trim] Does that not work ? Le ven. 26 mars 2021 à 16:06, Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> a écrit : > On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 16:00 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 19:20 +0100, Allister Sinclair wrote: > > > I don't know if an external exists for that but you could use > > > command > > > lines from pd. > > > (On linux I would use jack_connect and jack_disconnect commands > > > through the [ggee/shell] object. > > > > Now, that [ggee/shell] reports the proper exit code, this seemed a > > feasible approach. Not for long, though. There is no way around Pd > > prepending each symbol with a backslash. So, it is impossible to > > address a port like: > > > > "ardour:send 7/audio_in 1" > > > > Passing such a symbol to jack_connect through [shell] ends with: > > > > ERROR ardour:send\ 1/audio_out\ 1 not a valid port > > > > I remember a discussion going on github (can't find it right now) > > about > > whether the escaping with \ is an implementation detail that > > shouldn't > > be exposed to the user or the world outside of Pd. Now, I wonder > > whether it is [shell] not dealing properly with escaped characters in > > symbols, or whether the culprit is actually in Pd here. > > > > I'm not quite sure how to go on about this. > > > Ironically, when I want to execute the command from a real terminal, I > need to escape the port names with \: > > jack_connect pure_data:output_1 ardour:A-0/audio_input\ 1 > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Allister Sinclair
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