Ah fantastic, that's exactly what I need. fudi looks like the route, and the dev link was helpful too. Wasn't sure what list to put it on, but I actually needed both the patcher and dev answer, so thanks for sending both!
iain On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:28 PM Lucas Cordiviola <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops Iain, I thought this was on the Pd-Dev list :) > > you can do: > > [(out 0 :foobar)( // <-- message object > | > [fudiformat -u] > | > [list tosymbol] > | > > > -- > > Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas. > > On 4/13/2021 8:47 PM, Lucas Cordiviola wrote: > > May be this lines gives you lots of clues: > > > https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793 > > > PS: I'm on my second Pd external and found the binbuf thing very useful. > > > :) > > Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas. > > On 4/13/2021 7:56 PM, Iain Duncan wrote: > > Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to have a bunch of text, with > spacces, get treated as one symbol so that an external can work with it as > one thing. In Max, I did this by using the tosymbol object, and then > creating a message that was 'eval-string "(all my text as one string > here)"'. Is there a Pd idiom for doing something similar that I should > follow? Use cases are > > a) someone enters code in a message box: '(out 0 :foobar)' > b) code is received as a long string over osc or other network, and needs > to be sent to the external > > Apologies at the Pd ignorance, still trying to figure all this out while! > iain > > _______________________________________________pd-l...@lists.iem.at mailing > list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________pd-l...@lists.iem.at mailing > list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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