<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a student trying to sign up to the list and ask a question but he is having some trouble being approved to this list. I am pasting his question below and will send any responses to him! Thanks for any advice you might have. His email address is <a href="mailto:jgartens@tulane.edu" class="">jgartens@tulane.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b> Gartenstein, Jacob P<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 14, 2019 12:50 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> <a href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" class="">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> <<a href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" class="">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Questions about External </font><div class=""> </div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">Dear Pd Community - </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">I'm trying to create an object, via a pd external, which takes in several parameters, does internal calculations, and outputs several lists of floats. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">Part of the internal calculation process includes reading thousands of lines of equation coefficients from text documents. These coefficients, along with the input parameters, are necessary to perform the internal calculations. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">I've linked the pd external, entitled trackingPlanets, which creates in pd but doesn't perform any of the desired functionality. Pd crashes every time a bang hits the object, which is what triggers the internal calculations, including reading the text files. Through the course of some tests, I've discovered that the text file reading functions cause pd to crash. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">My questions:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Is there some method to internally read data from text files in pd?</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Are the internal calculations too much and causing pd to crash?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Are there more efficient methods of reaching my desired functionality that may help pd run more smoothly?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks in advance for the help,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Jake Gartenstein </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">Materials:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fdrive%2Ffolders%2F1KYB9GyP31I9tGfwFnY7ctfUH24qvClXa%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7Crsnow%40tulane.edu%7C27f33351311e468b113508d721beaad3%7C9de9818325d94b139fc34de5489c1f3b%7C0%7C0%7C637014975096336581&sdata=ktqk8oIAPoijOZ2rONBoGoJYdtKQvCqBg6BJNrAIlQo%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KYB9GyP31I9tGfwFnY7ctfUH24qvClXa?usp=sharing" shash="pPtc3HX27k/DezTLj8FIUUPXzNQylt1tm8peiy7aEIV3zmnLPXEpcI8d010kX35rFYt1RmGiyY0szO1Vy7f/+HllBQNvkXoMSjYsVeZSntOjaXp6rNiP9zG/0b2AUG3VVyL8kKuQhH6ZEktMs0Fch+EVKlJw07E1enyLrRZSOJ8=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk555889" tabindex="-1" previewremoved="true">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KYB9GyP31I9tGfwFnY7ctfUH24qvClXa?usp=sharing</a></div></div></div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>