On 2018-03-12 23:09, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > Hi, "#" characters become "$" when trying to put them into GUI labels, is > there a good reason for it?
it's a (very stupid) hack to prevent "$" from being expanded by the tcl interpreter. (the iemguis - btw not only the labels but also the send/receive names) - replace $ with # (rather than the other way round) to communicate between GUI and Pd-core; after that, the symbols are transformed back - which is why the "#" (which wasn't transformed in the first place) gets replaced with "$"). the correct way would have been to just properly quote the dollars. > Or should we just treat it as a bug and fix it? sure. before you start doing that, please detail your plan on how to not break all patches that rely on "#<number> from being expanded to "$<number>"
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