[flext] Period in object class name?

[Jamie Bullock]

Hi Thomas,

Sorry to come back on this one, but my client is unhappy about distributing a library of externals in "lib" form. The reason is that in Max, users are very unfamiliar with the "lib" concept and almost all libraries are distributed as a set of individual externals. It seems a bit ugly to move to an ml_* prefix instead of ml.* just because Flext doesn't support having a period in the class name for objects.

Do you think it would take much work to change this behaviour in Flext so that "." is supported in regular object names? I'd be happy to take a stab at this if you could give me some pointers as to where to start.

Jamie


On 18 Nov 2013, at 19:54, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:

> Interesting problem - i have made a couple of externals with a dot, but they are all part of external libraries, which bundle a few objects, see e.g. vasp, zconf, clk, etc. .
> I guess special characters (all except [a-z0-9_]) in main external objects are not supported at this point.
> gr~~~
> 
> 
> 2013/11/18 Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I'd like to include a period in a Flext external name, e.g. ml.libsvm
> 
> I can achieve this in Max by renaming the target to "ml.libsvm" and adding FLEXT_NEW_V("ml.libsvm", svm)
> 
> However, if I try to load the resulting Pd object, I get the following error to the Pd console: load_object: Symbol "setup_ml0x2elibsvm" not found.
> 
> Is there a way to resolve this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jamie
> 
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