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Is there a way to have an inlet take in an arbitrary symbol, or a list that starts with a symbol? It seems that proxies that take in lists only accept lists that start with a number. Lists that start with symbols trigger a "doesn't understand "g"" error, where g is the first symbol in the list.

(A set of external examples in the SDK that demonstrate different kinds of proxies (lists, symbols, etc) would be so helpful!)

Is there a way to have an inlet take in an arbitrary symbol, or a list that starts with a symbol? It seems that proxies that take in lists o

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it's actually pretty simple and I don't think external examples are needed.

when you create a proxy inlet you create a general inlet that is able to accept any message selector, whether numeric (A_LONG or A_FLOAT) or a symbol (A_SYM). It doesn't matter if the message is made of a single atom or a list of atoms. You gotta look at the message selector only. (basically the first atom in a list)

You need to implement two methods in your object, a "list" method and an "anything" method,

class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobject_list, "list", A_GIMME, 0);

class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobject_anything, "anything", A_GIMME, 0);

The "list" method will be called in response to all lists that start with a numeric value.

The "anything" method will be called in response to all lists that start with a symbol.

You won't receive any more "doesn't understand xxx" errors.

Hi there,
it's actually pretty simple and I don't think external examples are needed.

Here is how you ought to think about it:
when you create a proxy inlet you create a general inlet that is able to accept any message selector, whether numeric (A_LONG or A_FLOAT) or a symbol (A_SYM). It doesn't matter if the message is made of a single atom or a list of atoms. You gotta look at the message selector only. (basically the first atom in a list)

class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobject_list,  "list", A_GIMME, 0);
class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobject_anything,  "anything", A_GIMME, 0);

The "list" method will be called in response to all lists that start with a numeric value.
The "anything" method will be called in response to all lists that start with a symbol.
You won't receive any more "doesn't understand xxx" errors.
That's it.

proxy inlets that take symbols or lists that start with symbols?