[maxmsp] Re: Autonaming objects

On 1 juin 07, at 09:02, Stefan Tiedje wrote:

> Why should they, I can't imagine why a user would need to name objects 
> which have names already...
> Maybe its time to tell us what you actually want to do...

If Guillaume, and I, and maybe others, think it's a good idea to 
autoname patchers, I hope there must be some reasons :-)

In my case, I use some [bpatcher] with an argument, and want this 
argument to be part of the name of the [bpatcher]'s instance. I found 
it much more easy to have the [bpatcher] naming itself automatically 
once instantiated than having to type in an argument in the inspector 
AND the correct name.
As a side effect, if I use this [bpatcher] in a couple of monthes, I'm 
sure that, despite any comments I could add in the patch, I will forget 
to name it the right way. Now, with this autonaming technique, I know 
it will have a name and will be visible to [autopattr].

There may be other ways to do this, and this is just one of them...

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