[flext] Period in object class name?

[Thomas Grill]

I see... if you look into the xsample externals, they come with a text file
that defines "object mappings", essentially a list of links form object
names to a binary. See the file attached.
Aliases are given in the form
max objectfile xgroove~ xsample;
meaning that an instantiation of the xgroove~ object actually calls the
xsample binary (library).
gr~~~


2014-03-13 10:18 GMT+01:00 Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:

>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Can you elaborate a bit on this? "The distributed
> 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."
>
> This sounds promising, but I'm not familiar the aliasing method you
> mention.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jamie
>
> On 13 Mar 2014, at 09:14, Thomas Grill <gr at grrrr.org> wrote:
>
> 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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>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Thomas Grill
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>
>


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max objectfile xgroove~ xsample;
max objectfile xplay~ xsample;
max objectfile xrecord~ xsample;

max oblist xsample xgroove~;
max oblist xsample xplay~;
max oblist xsample xrecord~;