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This drove me Insane for hours last night.

Couldn't figure out why objects were being given generic names (flonum, flonum[1], ...).

I blamed that poor little [autopattr (@autoname 0)], who was entirely innocent.

Turns out that mira.frame, (understandably, predictably, obviously) auto-assigns Scripting Names to all objects it supports if they are not already named.

Fine, no hard feelings, MIRA.... But this is a problem when I only want to use the very specifically assigned Scripting Names in a Umenu, for routing purposes with pattrstorage, and dont want 500 'flonum[i]' clogging up my ipad screen.

Any suggestions for how to circumvent this?

This drove me Insane for hours last night.
Couldn't figure out why objects were being given generic names (flonum, flonum[1], ...).
I blamed that poor little [autopattr (@autoname 0)], who was entirely innocent.
Turns out that mira.frame, (understandably, predictably, obviously) auto-assigns Scripting Names to all objects it supports if they are not already named.
Fine, no hard feelings, MIRA.... But this is a problem when I only want to use the very specifically assigned Scripting Names in a Umenu, for routing purposes with pattrstorage, and dont want 500 'flonum[i]' clogging up my ipad screen.

Any suggestions for how to circumvent this?


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I'm also struggling with this problem.
Any solution?


I've hit this problem in a slightly different setup (no mira). My work around is to attach a [loadmess varname] to any objects I want to exclude from pattr.

I've hit this problem in a slightly different setup (no mira).  My work around is to attach a [loadmess varname] to any objects I want to exclude from pattr.


Glad to have discovered the answer to this. Not sure I agree with the "understandably, predictably, obviously" part.

Glad to have discovered the answer to this.  Not sure I agree with the "understandably, predictably, obviously" part.

Well.... I figure mira needs some way to differentiate between objects, and if you don't give them a name it will.

And, BTW, for anyone who was concerned about this for the reason I was (trying to use the contents of patter to load umenus for routing, as in the Andrew Benson video processing system example), if I recall, I just did some regex thing to ignore anything stored which I didn't name myself.

MIRA Automatic Scripting Name Assignment (!?)