On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Frank Barknecht wrote:
It is not possible to generate any kind of numercial symbol using the
editor, and that's what the manual says. It's possible to generate
"t_symbol"s using other techniques, if you need them, for example to get
But this is nothing unusual, it's the same for pointers, gemlists,
pdp-packets, probably GF grids etc.
Well, almost.
GF reparses its objectbox arguments for parens and commas. With commas it
makes init-messages. With parens it makes A_BINBUF atoms, which are nested
lists (can you say « list atom » ?)
That's happening by default for all the classes, except that a class can
turn off this behaviour.
Then there is another step.
a GF constructor that receives an A_BINBUF where a Grid* is declared,
converts that binbuf to a grid, so that « 2 3 4 s # 5 6 7 » means « make a
grid of shorts (s) of 2 by 3 by 4, and for all elements (in usual order),
fill with 5,6,7,5,6,7,5,6,7,... ». (there are also simpler syntaxes for
simpler cases)
GF used to also parse parens in messageboxes, but that is now gone.
However, all grid-accepting inlets also accept list-messages and convert
them to grids using the same syntax (except the parens).
Of course, GF does not modify the code of pd's messagebox class. (so
far...)
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