[PD] [gem] Looking for an abstraction for converting textfiles in text3d string

[Roman Haefeli]

On Don, 2013-02-21 at 15:15 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2013-02-21 14:41, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > On Don, 2013-02-21 at 14:13 +0100, Charles Goyard wrote:
> >> Hey, that works. But, as you may have guessed, it's awfully slow
> >> with a "large" textfile (about 3kb). I guess it's just the
> >> message box that's slow to update.
> > 
> > Actually, message boxes are pretty fast. Try hiding it in a
> > non-visible subpatch so that it is not hogging the CPU by updating
> > the graphic representation.
> 
> that's why i usually use [list] for these kind of operations.
> though in reality it might be slower than an (invisible) msgbox.

BTW, it's dead easy to put this into an abstraction to avoid the GUI
update issue:

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Roman