1. Make the abstraction at right. Save it as "abstest.pd"
2. Create a new patcher and use [abstest name-of-soundfile.wav].

(Edit: Add screenshot...)

In the console you can see:

0-sf: no such table
load: read -resize mid-chain2.wav 0-sf

The "read" message seems to be properly constructed (with $0 replaced by a number) but the read command produces "no such table." (It doesn't help if I [delay] the loadbang either. The error is not produced if I disconnect the loadbang, so it is definitely coming from the "read" message.)

I thought that $0 everywhere in an abstraction gets replaced, on instantiation, by an ID unique to that instance.

Is it supported to use a uniquely-named array in an abstraction? Or do I have to make the name another symbol argument?

hjh

@ddw_music Your $0 in the read message is not translated. It will be zero.
As you see in the error message.
You will need to use it in an object, so something like [pack s $0] before will work while replacing $0 in the message with a $2..
$x is translated at creation from patch arguments..... only in an object.
$ in a message translates the incoming data at its inlet..... and $0 is an error....... incoming data is indexed from 1...... $1 $2 $3 etc.
David.

At one point it did print "1009-sf"

Ok, it makes sense, I'll fix it later.

hjh