[PD] Size of a table

[Luke Iannini]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:04 AM, marius schebella
<marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> that's cool. did not know that expr can do that! are there more features
> of expr that are hidden or unknown??
> marius.
>

Hi Marius
Check it out:
http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~yadegari/expr.html#funcs
Cheers
Luke


>
>>
>> At 09:38 11/06/2008, you wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:03:28AM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>>> raul diaz wrote:
>>>>> I have a dumb question. What's the best way to get the size of a table?
>>>>> Sometimes I load a lot of samples on tables with soundfiler and I would
>>>>> like to take the size of each sample as a variable in order to use it
>>>>> with phasor + tabread4~.
>>>>> Is there any object which gets the size of a table?
>>>> well i have a dumb answer: why not use the "length" output of [soundfiler]?
>>>>
>>>> i think that in this case the philosophy of Pd his, that there are 2
>>>> ways to change the length of a table: do it interactively (e.g. create a
>>>> [table bla 1024] or do it programmatically (e.g. via [; bla resize 216()
>>>> in the first case the author of the software is responsible for using
>>>> (e.g. "hardcoding") the right table-size throughout there patch, in the
>>>> latter case you could just listen to these programmatical changes).
>>>> tables suddenly changing there size are beyond Pd :-)
>>> There is one situation I have encountered where it would be useful to
>>> have a built in [arraysize]. In some of the s-abstractions such as
>>> [s-samplepiece~] you have to pass in the table name that you'd like the
>>> abstraction to use. This means that at some point the user loads some
>>> audio data into the named table (for example using [s-loader~]) and they
>>> then know the sample table size. When they create the [s-samplepiece~]
>>> playback abstraction they must manually enter the array size as one of
>>> the arguments to the abstraction, along with the table name.
>>> Inefficient.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
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