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I have send/receive names in a dict to change the target of a 

If I change the name of the target by passing "

, the --- never gets replaced with the instance number. It works when the editor is open but not without it.

Changing the contents of a message object into "

" from the dict and triggering that does not work either. I found a workaround to pre-create a message object with "

I have send/receive names in a dict to change the target of a forwardobject.

If I change the name of the target by passing "---Foo" from the dict into a message with send $1, the --- never gets replaced with the instance number. It works when the editor is open but not without it.

Changing the contents of a message object into "---Foo" from the dict and triggering that does not work either. I found a workaround to pre-create a message object with "---Foo" and trigger it with sel, but this feels like a bug.

I have send/receive names in a dict to change the target of a forwardobject.
If I change the name of the target by passing "---Foo" from the

scoped-sendreceive-name-coming-from-a-dict-is-not-replaced-correctly-with-the-instance-number

Max does not replace the three dashes at runtime, but only once when the device is loaded. And only in object names, message boxes and similar. So if your dict sends out ---foo you'll need to parse that string first and substitute the --- with the device id.

Thanks Jan! Prepending --- helps, don't know why I didn't think of that.

Countles times I thought the same :)))) 
That's why i love this forum. 

Scoped send/receive name (---) coming from a dict is not replaced correctly with the instance number