seejayjames

I made another zoomable multislider and tried to create it just as simply as possible. I am probably missing something obvious, as is generally the case in Max, but...

Is there an easy way to *set* all the sliders in a multislider to a list? You send in a list and the sliders adjust and output. You say "set" the same list and it interprests the list as slider#, slider value, slider#, slider value...

So you need to generate an interleaved list of alternating s#-sval pairs to set the sliders, rather than being able to say "setlist" and then send the list. I know this interleaved list can be created relatively easily with iter and append, but it seems like a "setlist" message built into the object would be nice...

Anyone else ever run into this? It came up when making the zoomable multislider and getting the new data entered into the zoomed part back into the main one, as it needs to be "set" rather than just entered (stack overflow otherwise).

Also, if anyone has a really elegant means of generating that interleaved list I'd like to see it, perhaps it's a lot simpler than I'm aware.

Is there an easy way to *set* all the sliders in a multislider to a list? You send in a list and the sliders adjust and output. You say "set" the same list and it interprests the list as slider#, slider value, slider#, slider value... 

multisliders-a-setlist-message-available

> Also, if anyone has a really elegant means of generating that

> interleaved list I'd like to see it, perhaps it's a lot simpler than

Don't know if its elegant, it will limit the size of your multislider to 

less than 256 (don't know what the limit of listfunnel might be).

Seejay James wrote:
> Also, if anyone has a really elegant means of generating that
> interleaved list I'd like to see it, perhaps it's a lot simpler than
> I'm aware.

Don't know if its elegant, it will limit the size of your multislider to 
less than 256 (don't know what the limit of listfunnel might be).

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Stefan, that's definitely the ticket. listfunnel. shoulda poked around some more before posting, it's just what I was looking for.

Probably I'll use js to increase the list length if needed, since arrays can be handled nice and clean inside. though 256 is a lot of points, especially with multiple multisliders active.

> Probably I'll use js to increase the list length if needed, since

> arrays can be handled nice and clean inside. though 256 is a lot of

> points, especially with multiple multisliders active.

There are mxj classes coming with Max ready to go, they can easily 

replace the zl stuff and will go up to 4096...

Seejay James wrote:
> Probably I'll use js to increase the list length if needed, since
> arrays can be handled nice and clean inside. though 256 is a lot of
> points, especially with multiple multisliders active.

There are mxj classes coming with Max ready to go, they can easily 
replace the zl stuff and will go up to 4096...

mxj list.Multiplex will interleave the two lists. mxj list.Demultiplex 

mxj list.Multiplex will interleave the two lists.  mxj list.Demultiplex 
will, well you get the picture.

Multisliders -- a "setlist" message available?