[flext] Period in object class name?

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Jamie,
the reason for the limitation is that Pd does support names with "special"
characters only with an HTML-like encoding of the filename. (e.g. %2c for a
dot) To support this, a quite different approach to the definition of the
names would be required in flext.
I am totally convinced why a lib should be a problem. The distributed
external library can come as a new-style Max package with alias definitions
for the individual objects, so that this becomes totally transparent to the
user.
gr~~~



2014-03-13 10:05 GMT+01:00 Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:

>
> 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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