Basvlk

Or does something like this already exist?

It would be great if hovering over the inlets would display which word will be prepended.

object-suggestion-the-opposite-of-route

check the java script based osc-unroute object:

i forgot to mention it works best in combination with CNMAT's great  [osc-route] object which uses an OSC based syntax.

I've used osc-route but ended up using route in most cases (it's a little bit faster) because in most cases I dont use the /../.../.. hierarchy - I just route on one term.

I think the java based osc-unroute was a little slow too. I'm happy with the abstraction I made, I just thought it might make a good object to be included in Max MSP

Mike S - thanks for your patch: that's a clever way of doing it, I'm going to remember that. In fact the sliders were just there to demostrate how the object works: I'm just thinking something like 'funnel' which outputs values but prepended with a textstring rather than a number would be useful.

Peter Elsea has an Lobject to do this - though it doesn't do hover. It's called [Label] but he also refers to it as 'the Great Prepender'.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/research/Lobjects.readme.html

    var input = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);

    outlet(0, jsarguments[index + 1], input);

if (jsarguments.length > 0)
{
	inlets = jsarguments.length - 1;
}

	var input  = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);

	outlet(0, jsarguments[index + 1], input);

object suggestion: the opposite of 'route'