[PD] Help on ASCII

[oliver]

try "tosymbol" or "fromsymbol" from thge cyclone/hammer library. they can handle symbols with spaces.

http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/cyclone.html


plus there are some symbol-toys in the zexy-library ("list2symbol", "makesymbol")

ftp://ftp.iem.at/pd/Externals/ZEXY/


ciao

oliver

 

14.04.2003 07:10:02, Bradon Webb <bradonwebb at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello all
>
>I need some help with a reversing text patch.... I am
>trying to write a patch that will reverse text and
>made a somewhat dysfunctional version that uses the
>"keyname" object. It packs the symbol character of the
>keystroke into a textfile and then advances to the
>next line and sets the next keystoke character into a
>new line and so on until a bang is pressed to process
>the information.  Then a textfile is read back by
>counting the total # of lines, then skipping that #
>minus one to give the very last character.  I store
>that character in an empty messagebox.  Then the total
>number of lines is set to be (total = total - 1) and
>the process is started over, so that I now get the
>second to last character in the file and so on.  I am
>using the "add2" message to continue to add the new
>character to the previous ones.  The problems I am
>having are:
>
>1.) I cannot use spaces, because they get do not get
>recognized as a character, and backspaces appear as
>"Backspace" and shift appears as "Shift".
>
>2.) the message box adds a space between each new
>character so that the text appears like this: "s i h t
>e k i l".  So I am wondering if there is a way to
>correct these things, maybe by using an ascii object
>that I am unaware of.
>
>Thanks all this is my first post
>Bradon~
>
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