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#1 2009-01-11 23:24:18
- v01pe
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example external pan~ not working
hello!
i'm new to externals programming and tried out the examples from the pd-externals-HOWTO.pdf at (http://iem.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/). everything worked, except the pan~ example...
everything complies, but if i try to put an "test~" (renamed from pan~ because there already exists a pan~ object in PD-extended) object, it doesn't work:
test~
... couldn't create
i tried out several variations, but the result stays the same.... has anyone a clue how to fix this, or can someone provide a very basic signal example for an external to me?
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#2 2009-01-14 01:55:42
- ClaudiusMaximus
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Re: example external pan~ not working
the file has to be "test~.pd_linux" (with extension according to OS) with a symbol "test_tilde_setup" exported from it, and the file has to be in pd's path. I'm guessing it's just a symbol naming issue (would be simpler if there was just "setup" instead of having to guess which name pd would look for, but i guess that's not going to change soon!)
EDIT: oh, and the file has to declare a class called "test~" otherwise the code will load and be executed, but pd won't be able to create the object...
try "pd -verbose" to see where it looks in more detail, in any case
Last edited by ClaudiusMaximus (2009-01-14 02:03:34)
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#3 2009-01-17 15:49:06
- v01pe
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Re: example external pan~ not working
ClaudiusMaximus wrote:
the file has to be "test~.pd_linux"
oh thanks very much! i thought, i can complile more than one pd-object into the same external... so now i know, that there must be one external named equal to the object that it contains, right?!
greetings, -vlp-
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#4 2009-02-11 23:25:20
- ClaudiusMaximus
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Re: example external pan~ not working
Almost: Pd takes the name of the object and runs the matching setup function in the file that matches that name. You can use the -lib flag to specify the name to use instead of having to create an object, which is useful for multi-object externals (which don't in fact absolutely need to register an object for the file name as far as I know, but it's often there).
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#5 2011-11-04 16:51:10
- domien
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Re: example external pan~ not working
Something like this you mean. Right click the sliders -> properties to check out their names.
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