Not trying to hijack this thread into a different subject, I was messing with the external in order to understand how it works. I got my mods on, compiled it, all ok.<br><br>But how can I load it? pdextended always load a default "filetext", I even started with the -nostdpath but no luck. It doesn't load mine. I'm launching pd from the same dir as the filetext.pd_linux... What's the correct way to test externals in these conditions..?<br>
<br>Some help?<br><br>Best regards to all,<br>Pedro<br>p.s. also tryed >pdextended -path textfile.pd_linux (nothin'..)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The problem occurs because Pd has several built-in message types, and the float message is one of them. </div>
<div>Pd expects any message that has the "float" selector to have one argument, and that argument should be a </div>
<div>float-atom (e.g., "float 1"). So if you type "float foo" in a message box and click it, Pd complains about </div>
<div>"bad arguments" because (I think) when the message box tries to parse the message, it sees the "float" </div>
<div>selector and thus expects a number for the argument, but instead it gets the symbolic-atom "foo."</div>
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<div>In your example patch, if you disconnect all the objects from the outlet of [textfile] and click </div>
<div>the [bng], you'll notice that you don't get an error. I would take this to mean that [textfile] does its </div>
<div>job-- its just that once you try to do anything with the message "float toto 0 1 2" by connecting </div>
<div>[textfile]'s outlet to another object, Pd will catch the badly formed message and report an error.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>(On the other hand, if your example text file had the line "float 3 0 1 2," the first argument ("3") would be </div>
<div>the right type of atom, so Pd would just silently truncate </div>
<div>everything after the first argument. But you'd still get an error from the </div>
<div>right inlet of [select float] because, ironically, by making the first argument of [select] the word</div>
<div>"float" instead of a float-atom like "3," you are instantiating a [select] object that expects symbol </div>
<div>messages and not floats.)</div>
<div> </div>
<div>As far as a solution, you could begin each line of your text file with the selector "list", or a word that </div>
<div>is not the selector of Pd's builtin messages. If you're reading in arbitrary data and you can't control </div>
<div>whether each line starts with something that could be confused for a built-in Pd message type, I'm not sure </div>
<div>what the best solution is.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>-Jonathan</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Pedro Lopes <<a href="mailto:pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> matohawk <<a href="mailto:matohawk@gmail.com" target="_blank">matohawk@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> pd-list <<a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at" target="_blank">Pd-list@iem.at</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, June 29, 2010 6:49:44 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD] Problem with Textfile and line with float<br></font><div><div></div><div><br>humm.. I see what you mean now. It gives a error with the float argument when it arrives at the objects after the textfile. I'm trying to figure out the reason for that. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Pedro Lopes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I did that, but what are you expecting your patch to do? <br>Should it send each object read from text file separately? <br>
<br>'Cause here (with the patch I explain in my previous reply) the textfile reads your file and outputs all the values to a [print list] so then its just a matter of manipulating that into what you want.<br><br>I used your file for the tests. I can try to look and guess what do you intend, but its probably less ambiguous if you explain the purpose. :)<br>
<br>Best of luck,<br><font color="#888888">Pedro</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:36 PM, matohawk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matohawk@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">matohawk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hi Pedro,<br>Sorry I think I'm not very with explanation.<br>I know how textfile works it's not my problem<br>
Have a look of this patch and textfile, it's better to understand the problem:<br><a href="http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Patch/bug-texfile.pd" target="_blank">http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Patch/bug-texfile.pd</a><br><a href="http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Patch/text-float.txt" target="_blank">http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Patch/text-float.txt</a><br>
<br>Download the twho files, open the patch and click on bang<br><br>Cheers,<br>Thomas<br><br>Pedro Lopes a écrit :<br>
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<div>I'm not following the "concept" behind your code.<br><br>Notice that you can connect a message box "print" and send that command to textfile. And it reads your file to the pd shell correctly.<br>
<br>[read your-file.txt]<br>| [print( <-- this is a message<br>| /<br>|/<br>| [bang] <-- hit this to read,.<br>| /<br>|/<br>[textfile]<br>|<br>|<br>[print list]<br><br>And it works. Take a look at the help file, it shows hot to use it. I hope I'm understanding your issue, if not, hopefully someone does :)<br>
<br>Best of luck,<br>Pedro<br>p.s: remember to use the "rewind" message to textfile, because otherwise it doesn't read the line again! Because it moves forward with the seek file pointer.<br><br></div>
<div>On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:37 PM, thomas thiery <<a href="mailto:matohawk@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">matohawk@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:matohawk@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">matohawk@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br> Hi pd-list,<br><br> test this patch, I saw a curious problem. I need to read line with<br> "float" at the begining of a line and textfile can't do this.<br> It's a pity<br><br> -- Matohawk alias Th-Th<br>
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