[flext] More on naming...

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Jamie, many thanks for the recipe. Let's see if this can be integrated into the trunk in a more compact way.
Just to make sure: Are you certain that the tilde setup function for DSP objects doesn't need to be specified?
gr~~~

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Thomas Grill
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Am 10.04.2014 um 18:04 schrieb Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:

> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Actually, it seems sufficient to add to flbase.h:
> 
> #if defined(FLEXT_USE_HEX_SETUP_NAME) && defined(FLEXT_SYS_PD)
>     #define FLEXT_STPF_0(NAME) setup_##NAME
>     #define FLEXT_STPF_1(NAME) setup_##NAME
> #elif FLEXT_SYS == FLEXT_SYS_PD || FLEXT_SYS == FLEXT_SYS_MAX
> 	#define FLEXT_STPF_0(NAME) NAME##_setup
> 	#define FLEXT_STPF_1(NAME) NAME##_tilde_setup
> #else
> #error Platform not supported
> #endif
> 
> And then to do something like:     
> 
> 	typedef class ml_svm ml0x2dsvm;
> 	FLEXT_NEW("ml-svm", ml0x2dsvm);
> 
> I guess you might consider this a bit ugly, but it works for my purposes.
> 
> Jamie    
>     
> 
> 
> On 10 Apr 2014, at 11:55, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jamie,
>> it’s exactly the same as with the dot. To my knowledge, only a-z0-9_ are considered as normal characters for Pd externals.
>> It would be possible to extend flext - it would require a new set of #defines for the class setup. It’s kind of awkward, that’s why i have refrained from it so far in the flext main trunk. But one can certainly fork the flext source and extend it in that fashion.
>> gr~~~
>> 
>> Am 10.04.2014 um 12:50 schrieb Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We've decided to change our naming convention from ml.* to ml-* so we can build our library as either a Max/Pd "library" or individual objects.
>>> 
>>> This presents a new problem:
>>> 
>>> - everything works under Max
>>> - under Pd, we can use ml-* if we compile as a library
>>> - if we compile as individual objects then Pd throws an error of the form "load_object: Symbol "setup_ml0x2dsvm" not found"
>>> 
>>> I did some investigation and if I create a normal Pd external (not using Flext), I can rename the setup function to "setup_ml0x2dsvm" and it does indeed work.
>>> 
>>> So my question is: is there any way to achieve this trick with Flext?
>>> 
>>> Jamie
>>> 
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