Hello!
Is it possible to put a variable name in the "Send symbol" and "Receive symbol" fields in a UI object property window?

using an Hslider, for example, I don't seem to be able to fill those fields with "slider_$0", this gets automatically changed to "slider_0".

I know I can connect a message box to the slider to change this, and I know I can send a remote message with a message box (using the receive symbol), but I'd love to be able to just fill those two automatically with a unique number for each patch.

Does the question even make sense?

Hi there, I think in order to do this you may need to use $0 at the beginning of the send/receive name — i.e., $0_slider instead of slider_$0. I've encountered some other quirks with the GUI objects & name variables... I seem to remember reading somewhere on the Pd-list or Pd's Github that work is in progress to standardize/fix some of them.

@yannseznec @beep-beep is correct. But you can use # instead....... slider_#0 is the same as slider_$0 would be if it worked as expected.
David.

@whale-av @beep-beep that's great, thanks!