Robbles

Here is another part to my wonderful patch application! As some of you might know im building this for a project due in a weeks time, but i have to have to running asap to test it out in the field.

I will be putting my up final patch when its complete as its only fair since im getting so much support from the forum!

this is the last part of my patch (ive skipped to the end! haha)

ive put in a really rough example (the messiest ive ever made!) just to show you what is going on. and some text to explain my intention - im looking for a more efficient or simple method as my current way could get out of control. currently there are only 4 inputs, but for my project im trying to make 16 and in the future if this was to be used in a public space it would need lots more than that! anyways pls take a look and give me a guiding light.

i cant thank you guys enough for taking the time to help me out

(ive attached the patch rather than copy paste)

this is the last part of my patch (ive skipped to the end! haha) 

(ive attached the patch rather than copy paste)


counting-incrementing-etc-pls-help

On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Robert wrote:

> ive put in a really rough example (the messiest ive ever made!) just 

> to show you what is going on. and some text to explain my intention 

> - im looking for a more efficient or simple method as my current way 

> could get out of control. currently there are only 4 inputs, but for 

> my project im trying to make 16 and in the future if this was to be 

> used in a public space it would need lots more than that! anyways 

> pls take a look and give me a guiding light.

I'm not 100% sure I know what you want, but maybe this solution using 

On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Robert wrote:
> ive put in a really rough example (the messiest ive ever made!) just  
> to show you what is going on. and some text to explain my intention  
> - im looking for a more efficient or simple method as my current way  
> could get out of control. currently there are only 4 inputs, but for  
> my project im trying to make 16 and in the future if this was to be  
> used in a public space it would need lots more than that! anyways  
> pls take a look and give me a guiding light.

I'm not 100% sure I know what you want, but maybe this solution using  
bucket:


Chris Muir
cbm@well.com	
http://www.xfade.com

thats fantastic! that uncomplicates the patch so much! its perfect.

is there anyway to get the counter to stop counting after a certain count?

On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Robert wrote:

> thats fantastic! that uncomplicates the patch so much! its perfect.

> is there anyway to get the counter to stop counting after a certain 

Yes, but it can get a little messy if you plan on using all of 

counter's directions (Up, Down, UpDown.) Basically, you put a gate in 

front of counter's count input, and disable bangs getting to counter 

On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Robert wrote:
> thats fantastic! that uncomplicates the patch so much! its perfect.

> is there anyway to get the counter to stop counting after a certain  
> count?

Yes, but it can get a little messy if you plan on using all of  
counter's directions (Up, Down, UpDown.)  Basically, you put a gate in  
front of counter's count input, and disable bangs getting to counter  
if you're at the limit.

so i put the object "gate" how to i argument that if i want a max of 3 ?

no its just going to go in one direction
so i put the object "gate" how to i argument that if i want a max of 3 ?


On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Robert wrote:

>no its just going to go in one direction

>so i put the object "gate" how to i argument that if i want a max of 3 ?

As with most things Max, there are many ways to approach this. Here's one:

On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Robert wrote:
>no its just going to go in one direction
>so i put the object "gate" how to i argument that if i want a max of 3 ?
>

hey thanks for that, it works, but now its cuasing a problem where in the jit.glue object its showing the video 3 times when it should be showing it once (after the first bang)

how do i stop that? even though on the radio group object its not showing anything so theoretically it should be only displaying the video once...

hey thanks for that, it works, but now its cuasing a problem where in the jit.glue object its showing the video 3 times when it should be showing it once (after the first bang)
how do i stop that? even though on the radio group object its not showing anything so theoretically it should be only displaying the video once...

just quickly, if i close the patch and the open it again, it resets something becuase then it works fine - so i need a clear or a reset or something somewhere in there to clear it while testing it etc.... does anyone know where to put it ?

I'm quite unclear on what your problem is. You might want to comment 

your patch enough point out what expected behavior is, as well as 

what's going wrong. I'm not much of a jitter guy.

One thing that did jump out at me was that you're trying to initialize 

the loop mode of the jit.qt.movie objects with a loadbang. You have 

typed "loadbang 2" into a MESSAGE box, not an object box, so it does 

nothing. Further, loadbang does not take an argument. The related 

object "loadmess" will take an argument, and could be connected 

On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Robert wrote:

> just quickly, if i close the patch and the open it again, it resets 

> something becuase then it works fine - so i need a clear or a reset 

> or something somewhere in there to clear it while testing it etc.... 

I'm quite unclear on what your problem is. You might want to comment  
your patch enough point out what expected behavior is, as well as  
what's going wrong. I'm not much of a jitter guy.

One thing that did jump out at me was that you're trying to initialize  
the loop mode of the jit.qt.movie objects with a loadbang. You have  
typed "loadbang 2" into a MESSAGE box, not an object box, so it does  
nothing. Further, loadbang does not take an argument. The related  
object "loadmess" will take an argument, and could be connected  
directly to the number like this:


On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Robert wrote:
>
> just quickly, if i close the patch and the open it again, it resets  
> something becuase then it works fine - so i need a clear or a reset  
> or something somewhere in there to clear it while testing it etc....  
> does anyone know where to put it ?
>

chris, thanks for helping me so much, you have improved my patch. thanks for picking that up as well, i will amend that asap.

ive got a question here on the other hand in the hitter forum - but its more related to simple max stuff involving the route object.

https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=138771&rid=7119&S=b4be87e3bb10ec30870cf9a3aeef0b67#msg_138771

i was hoping you could have a look, or anyone that can help! thanks guys :)

On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Robert wrote:

> chris, thanks for helping me so much, you have improved my patch. 

> thanks for picking that up as well, i will amend that asap.

You're making it too hard on yourself. Here's a version with the 

routing removed, using named colls instead. I think this does what you 

On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Robert wrote:
>
> chris, thanks for helping me so much, you have improved my patch.  
> thanks for picking that up as well, i will amend that asap.

You're making it too hard on yourself. Here's a version with the  
routing removed, using named colls instead. I think this does what you  
want.

thanks chris. i didnt know coll was able to do that :)

unfortunately the jit.qt.movie object wont read the file and i dont know why :(

• error: jit.qt.movie: doesn't understand "vid-2008-4-25.19-48-1.mov"

i keep getting this error - but if i manually put it to read, it works ?

the error comes up as:
• error: jit.qt.movie: doesn't understand "vid-2008-4-25.19-48-1.mov"

i keep getting this error - but if i manually put it to read, it works ?


woo! thanks chris - you gave me a good helping!

if my understand of that error message is correct, you are in need of:

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Robert wrote:

> thanks chris. i didnt know coll was able to do that :)

> unfortunately the jit.qt.movie object wont read the file and i dont know

> • error: jit.qt.movie: doesn't understand "vid-2008-4-25.19-48-1.mov"

> i keep getting this error - but if i manually put it to read, it works ?

if my understand of that error message is correct, you are in need of:
prepend read
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Robert  wrote:

>
> thanks chris. i didnt know coll was able to do that :)
>
> unfortunately the jit.qt.movie object wont read the file and i dont know
> why :(
>
> the error comes up as:
> • error: jit.qt.movie: doesn't understand "vid-2008-4-25.19-48-1.mov"
>
> i keep getting this error - but if i manually put it to read, it works ?
>

Counting, Incrementing etc pls help