[PD] Help with "pack" / lists

[Enrique Erne]

hi cyborg

[pack s s] expects symbol and a msg like [quarter( is not direct a 
symbol.
if you use a [symbol] object between the msg's and pack it will work as 
expected.
i'd prefer [list append], which in this case works the same way.

> want "1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0" to become "setPtn 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0".
[list prepend setPtn] ;-)

or you could use [glue] from zexy. i think that wants 2 lists.

find lots of eastereggs!

bye

eni


On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:56 PM, cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com wrote:

> The attached patch doesn't work... I can do it a different way, but I 
> want
> to know WHY this doesn't work, and what would be a better approach. I'd
> like to minimize use of externals as far as possible, but I do have the
> pd-extended 0.38.4 ... Anyway, based on the help file for pack, I can't
> see any reason why this patch shouldn't work.
>
> The more general question: without using prepend, how would I attach a 
> new
> message on to the start of a given message, or a list of floats: ie. I
> want "1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0" to become "setPtn 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0".
>
> Maybe this is stuff I need with the new list: but I can't use the help 
> for
> "list" because I'm on 0.38.4, and it breaks in this version; and I 
> can't
> use the newer pd, without breaking all my libraries that are already
> installed (and nobody could explain how to make pd 0.39+ play nice 
> with my
> current install on winXP). So I don't really even know what that [list]
> object is supposed to do... When I send it a list, it just bangs!
>
> ~David
>
>
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