@oid This is a problem from my 2nd ever dynamic patch, so I wouldn't try to read deep meaning into my questions
. Like my first dynamic patch, it's just a patch that generates the repetitive, static parts of other patches--a way to reduce the tedium of having to edit multiple send/receive names by hand, that's all. I'm expecting to have to cut and paste from this helper patch into the patch I'm really trying to write, so the value of $0 in the generating patch is irrelevant. Is that reasonable? In a patch that needed its UI to be dynamically generated, your way would make total sense, but I'm def not there yet. Also, regarding your other topic, I think the message that dynamically generates a vslider can itself be static, so I'm not sure that add2 technique is applicable.
@ingox OK, now I'm getting the same results as you, which is odd because the patch I've presented is just a small example from a larger patch that was giving me trouble. After discovering the $\$0
syntax I applied it to that larger patch, saw that it too was working, and then posted this topic. But now my larger patch is broken, which makes me believe that the system is behaving differently since running your patches (and that I wasn't previously hallucinating). But that can't be true, right?
So here's another small patch to demonstrate how my larger patch is (now) broken: dynamicPatchVerticalSlider2.pd
![dpvs2singleBackslash.png](/uploads/files/1625919823367-dpvs2singlebackslash.png)
See how \$0
is just generating a 0
in the send symbol? When I save and reload it to test the fader (which doesn't work), the backslash gets dropped from the creation message!
![dpvs2singleBackslashReloaded.png](/uploads/files/1625919953693-dpvs2singlebackslashreloaded.png)
So next I try falling back to the syntax I got working earlier, and the generated vslider send symbol looks good
![dpvs2dollarBackslashDollar.png](/uploads/files/1625920102124-dpvs2dollarbackslashdollar.png)
and on reloading it I can confirm that it is good, but now I can't use my generating patch because $1 is backslash escaped!
![dpvs2dollarBackslashDollarReloaded.png](/uploads/files/1625920160046-dpvs2dollarbackslashdollarreloaded.png)