Since pd disallows the use of the backslash is there any possible way to create a msg with variables? ie [set $1 $2 $3]. If the creation message reads [msg 100 100 set $1 $2 $3] the object becomes [set 0 0 0].

Thought about it a bit and came up with this

Any easier way?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/doc_test.pd

It's a tricky one. Try this:

[t b b]
| |
| [1, 2, 3(
| |
| [makefilename $%d]
| |
|

X[t l]
| |
|
[msg 100 100 set $1 $2 $3(

The outlet of goes into [t l], which goes into the right inlet of .

Or I guess that works, too.

Thanks for that. Looks like it's more or less going to have to be a permutation of this tricky solution. As long as it works!