[PD] Iterative text with Gem?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

B. Bogart wrote:
> hey all,
> 
> correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as there is no "symbol" in front of
> the atoms that get funneled into text3d, there is no memleak or filling
> up the symbol table, since we're not using symbols at all, just lists of
> atoms...

unfortunately i feel like having to correct you, since you are wrong.

the memleak occurs with symbol-atoms, not just with symbol-messages.
a symbol-message is a message with the id (always a symbol-atom) 
"symbol" and the first argument being another symbol-atom of your choice.

> 
> Now that I think about it it may be hard to generate these non-symbols
> without converting them to symbols at ay point...
> 
> Maybe a string type should be higher on the PD list than a video/image
> type?
> 

agreed, who volunteers? :-(

moocow has implemented a "numeric list-based string representation":
the string is represented as a list of (decimal) ascii-values; the 
list's id is "string";
e.g. [string 102 111 111 32 98 97 114( is a representation of the string 
"foo bar"

Gem's [text]-objects understand and display these messages.

that's how i would do the "iterative text" with Gem.


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