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!!

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).

[92(
[makefilename %c]

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

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.

ok. but thank you anyway!!