[PD] coll, textfile, qlist, etc?

[julien.breval at tremplin-utc.net]

Hello

Selon Ik <cola at looze.net>:

> Hello list, I'm working on something for wich I need to browse through a 
> 97 lines, 16 collumn( separated by tabs) textfile.
> I used textfile for this, with a counter, only letting output trough 
> when the right 'line' number has been reached.
> ( so actually banging the textfile object 60 times to get to line 60). 
> Whatever method I use, this is too slow, and it doesn't seem
> the right way to do this at all - however the only method I could find 
> possible using pd's builtin objects, and keeping all the data
> in one file, not spreading them over array's and multiple textfile 
> objects ( the data needs to be updated regularly manually)
> 
> I hoped to use msgfile for this, but as soon as I load the file my 
> memory usage goes up 99% eventually crashing PD, or making it unusable.
> I don't think pool works for this? I was hoping to checkout the 'coll' 
> object but I it's in cyclone(?) wich will not complie ( gcc 3?).
> Anyhow, qlist and textfile are the worst option ( they work like a 
> 'stack?' what I want to do is to use an array containing a mix of text 
> and digits).
> is there an external I overlooked that I could use for this?

I use [msgfile] without any problem, for saving all the parameters of a patch as
presets that I can recall in realtime. The text file is somewhat 700 lines long.   

Besides [coll], you can try [matrix] from the zexy library.

-j