amjcrawford

i have a midi controller patch that uses the coll object & a txt file to read the x/y axis coordinates of video squares across a videoplane (like this: 

the text file looks like this more or less:

is there a way to set variables instead of hard-coding the x/y positions so that i can dynamically change the positions of the different videos (with sliders or something i imagine)??

i have a midi controller patch that uses the coll object & a txt file to read the x/y axis coordinates of video squares across a videoplane (like this: http://bit.ly/cqexQi)

36, -1.35 0.8;
37, -1.35 0.48;
38, -1.35 0.16;
39, -1.35 -0.16;
40, -1.35 -0.48;
41, -1.35 -0.8;

dynamically-changing-coll-data-in-txt-file

Have a look at the coll help patch. The sub or nsub messages will do what you need.

Have a look at the coll help patch.  The sub or nsub messages will do what you need.


this isn't a direct solution, but here is a patch I use to dynamically update and populate a [coll] with user variables; hope it's some use to you:

dynamically changing coll data in txt file???