darkshigeru

I am wanting to build a patch that will play some videos named 1-9 in a random order, then the subject taking the test will answer two questions, these questions both have 5 answers.

However I am struggling when it comes to making this patch, is there any way I could send data from MAX to Excel, like the order in which the videos played and the answers the subject gave, because at the moment I am having to copy and paste the answers out of the MAX message window.

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Check the [text] object. This can be setup to export the messages that it receives as a text file - you'll have to do some formatting voodoo to make it tab delimited (the [zl] objects will be handy for this).

I don't know excel well enough to know exactly how it expects tab delimited text, but you could do something along the lines of keeping two lists: one of the order the videos played in, and another (possibly a [coll] that utilizes the first list as it's keys) that stores the user's answers.

Then you hit a button that runs the formatting voodoo (something like [zl lace] would work well, though if you use a coll to store answers it may get more complex) into the [text] object, and outputs to a text file. If you want to make it really transparent, I'm sure you can rig something up where it does all this automatically after the user answers the last question, and uses [sfprint] to format the name of the text file that you export.

Then it's just a matter of importing the text files into excel - sadly I don't think that's something that Max could easily automate.

Hope this helps get you on the right track!

Check the [text] object.  This can be setup to export the messages that it receives as a text file - you'll have to do some formatting voodoo to make it tab delimited (the [zl] objects will be handy for this).

Then you hit a button that runs the formatting voodoo (something like [zl lace] would work well, though if you use a coll to store answers it may get more complex) into the [text] object, and outputs to a text file.  If you want to make it really transparent, I'm sure you can rig something up where it does all this automatically after the user answers the last question, and uses [sfprint] to format the name of the text file that you export.

Hope this helps get you on the right track!


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