[PD] [text] question (SOLVED)

[José Rafael Subía Valdez]

Thanks Liam for your help,

I revised the patch and it was actually an error caused by the abstractions
trying to read the "buffer" before it actually loaded, I solved this by
setting a short delay after the [init]

cheers

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:17 AM, José Rafael Subía Valdez <
jsubiavaldez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Liam,
>
> the read instruction is in [GUI-creator]. I thought the other object need
> the name as a pointer, the creation arguments are written as they should
> be, other wise the patch wouldn't work at all, $2  inside is because it
> comes from the second argument written in the [cr_gui] abstraction.
>
> thanks for your help, I will continue to revise it, but if anyone else has
> an idea why this is happening I am all ears,
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Liam Goodacre <liamg_uw at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The problem is coming from the "read_number_memory" subpatches, where the
>> [text search] and [text set] objects are not linked to a text buffer. I
>> can't tell exactly why this is. Could it be because the creation arguments
>> are confused? ($1 in the [text define] object, $2 in the abstraction).
>>
>>
>> If not, perhaps you are misunderstanding how the text objects work. The
>> name given in [text define] defines a buffer that other text objects can
>> reference, but it does not point to a specific text file on your hard
>> drive. To open a file from the hard disk, you must send a "read" message to
>> text define. I don't see such a message in your patch, so perhaps this is
>> the problem.
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of José Rafael
>> Subía Valdez <jsubiavaldez at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* 28 September 2016 20:59
>> *To:* pd-list
>> *Subject:* [PD] [text] question
>>
>> Hello list
>>
>> quick question about the [text] object, I have a patch that reads and
>> records a text file. I use various [text] objects in the patch that access
>> the same file, these are placed in abstractions. I have no problems when
>> running the patch and the program works, but when I close the patch I get
>> this error, and I can't figure out why.
>>
>> text: couldn't find text buffer 'test-GUI-amount.txt'
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> last part of a 4-week project. So maybe I need a pair of fresh eyes.
>>
>> Basically, it is a preset system that I am programming, I keep track of
>> how many objects have been created, I am recording this number into a text
>> file. And I am using a single text file for every GUI object that I am
>> using. I don't understand why the error only comes up when closing the
>> patch or deleting the module that contains the objects. The program works
>> as I want it, but I would really wanna get rid of this error.
>>
>> attached is the file if someone can take a look, I deeply appreciate it.
>> To reproduce the error just open and close the patch. The [text] object is
>> in the
>> [GUI-creator] module and in the [pd read_number_memory] subpatch in the
>> [cr_gui] abstraction
>>
>> what is clear is that the error comes from the use of [text] in the
>> [cr_gui] as I have 8 errors and I use 8 instances of this abstraction
>>
>> cheers
>>
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