I am writing an externals that initializes netsend_tilde by sending a message of the type:
[connect <IP> <port>(
As I coded it now, my external sends out this:
symbol connect 123.123.123.123 12345
Within the patch I can put a [$1( between the outlet of my external and netsend, however I want to print out from the outlet a clean "connect <IP> <port>" message without "symbol" in front of it.

My code:

x->x_nsend_outlet = outlet_new(&x->x_obj, &s_symbol); // I tried also 0 as the first argument (message outlet-type) but did not work
char nsend_message[MESSAGE_LEN];
sprintf(nsend_msg,"connect %s %d",inet_ntoa(cli_addr.sin_addr),nsend_port); // create the message to send out "connect <IP> <port>"
outlet_symbol(x->x_nsend_outlet, gensym((char*) nsend_msg)); // outlets the message

Thanks, cheers

Leopard

t_atom connect_values[2];
SETSYMBOL(&connect_values[0],gensym(inet_ntoa(x->x_peers[cp].addr)));
SETFLOAT(&connect_values[1],nsend_port);
outlet_anything(x->x_nsend_outlet,gensym("connect"),2,connect_values);

First I instantiate two atoms (one will carry a IP address, the second an int port number), then I set the two symbols to the desired values (x->x_peers[cp].addr and nsend_port).
Finally I output them and voila they will appear as a message [connect <IP> <port>(
where the "connect" string appears first thanks to gensym("connect")

L