[PD] help - building txt reader Gem

[samuraiskillz at blueyonder.co.uk]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Yes the error was obvious, sorry.

The blanks is causing a problem as in some ascii art there can be just one
character placed at any point on a line. But I need to keep the formatting
of the line.

I'll have a play around with multiple text3d's

Cheers

dominic




> Piotr Majdak wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK [text3d] displays elements of a list and I don't know a way to
>> generate an element of list with a blank. You'd want to use an escape
>
> if you want words, just use separate list atoms: a 3-atom list "1 2 3"
> will result in a text "1 2 3" (with blanks!)
> if you really want symbols with blanks, use [makefilename] and or
> [list2symbol], but there should be no need for it here.
>
>> character to code blanks in lists - AFAIK pd doesn't support such a
>> thing (does it?).
>>
>>> I have the text moving up the screen, how would i get it to read each
>>> line
>>> of the txt file in order one at a time and display them without killing
>>> the previous line (think titles at start of starwars, ish).
>>
>>
>> What about one [text3d] for every line, moving up? It'll be a little bit
>> sofisticated to synchronize all the [text3d] with one [textfile] - maybe
>> you could try one [textfile] for every [text3d]?
>
> yes, i'd also suggest using something like multiple [text3d]s.
> in the current CVS of Gem, the text-objects support multilined text (but
> you are on your own to generate a linebreak within a list!).
> it really depends on the text you want to do, whether this fits or not
> (e.g. if you have 1000 lines of text but you only want to display 5
> lines at a time, you might be better off using 5 [text3d] objects
> instead of going through the hazzle with linebreaks)
>
> mfg.asdr.
> iOhannes
>
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