Using "\\" in message boxes

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:03:04 GMT

heindlpower — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:03:04 GMT

hey!

i tried to use "\" in a message box and it wasn't possible: it said: "keycode 92: dropped". i know, one can say, just use another symbol, there are plenty to use. but i want to write this to a textfile, with which lilypond can communicate, and there is one essential command in lilypond, where i really need "\".

thanks for your help!!

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:43:22 GMT

soundbulb — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:43:22 GMT

hello!
If you read the release notes of the 0.29 version, you have this:
"the GUI now protects itself from "\", "{" and "}" characters by dropping them. I wonder how many NT users have crashed Pd trying to type in filenames with backslashes... "
Bad news from the stars.
I have a lot of problems too with semi-columns (he puts a line feed after).
Pure-data seems super for a lot of things but not for handling special caracters.
If somebody could help us.
It's smelling scripts in other languages (too sad).

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:59:12 GMT

obiwannabe — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:59:12 GMT

[92(
[makefilename %c]

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:49:39 GMT

heindlpower — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:49:39 GMT

Thank you very much so far...

The problem is, that

[92(
[makefilename %c]

prints out four backslashes at once, and adding it to a message ends up with two backslashes...
Is there a way to make it produce a single backslash?

Thank you!
Cheers

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:23:19 GMT

hardoff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:23:19 GMT

i thought zexy's [symbol2list] might help you split it up, but it seems pd really doesn't want to let you use the single forward slash.

Reply to Using "\\" in message boxes on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:28:45 GMT

heindlpower — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:28:45 GMT

ok. but thank you anyway!!