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? _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list