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Simple question about lists and writing text files


nickv91

nickv91
Mar 4, 2012 at 5:16pm

Simple question about lists and writing text files

Hi all,
i have started with max today and i am wondering:
1 – How to Append Elements to a Message Box (for example i have a message button in which is written ‘a’ and i want that everytime i press this button it appends a in the new message button, so after i press 5 times this button i have in the new message box ‘a a a a a’.

2 – How to print on a text file the text of a message box.

Thanks

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Spip

Spip
Mar 4, 2012 at 5:40pm

For 1 take a look at : join and zl objects
For 2 : coll

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nickv91

nickv91
Mar 5, 2012 at 8:09am

Thank you for your reply.. i tried to do what is in the attached image file but it will not prepend nothing just set a new message…
I want that everytime i click on a it will add another a so if message box is 'a' after i click another time 'a' must be 'a a'.

How possible?

thanks

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  1. corrmax.JPG
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Helmuth

Helmuth
Mar 5, 2012 at 12:03pm

The messageobject has 2 inlets, and they work differently (true for almost all objects) Most important: the leftmost inlet sets a value and sends it out immediatly (hot inlet in the max language, in opposite to cold inlet, in general the rightmost inlet). The messagebox is little different: when you connect the leftmost inlet, nothing ist set, if you connect left inlet message is set, but nothing sent out. Therefore the prepend instruction SET, connectet to the messagebox, will constrain the messagebox to actually set the message: in your case only that message coming in ABOVE the PREPEND object, so if you wanted to prepend again is after the message created (this is a basic but very helpfull exemple to understand what I would call the chain of instruction or instanciation: is important to understand to get what you want. The solution of your issue is more tricky: check sprintf

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nickv91

nickv91
Mar 5, 2012 at 12:52pm

i cannot understand still… I just need message box called ‘a’ and everytime i press on it it must add another ‘a’ in a new message box.
It is the simple prepend function of LISP applied to list.
Is not possible using prepend???

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AudioLemon

AudioLemon
Mar 5, 2012 at 9:58pm

is this what you are looking for?

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Wetterberg

Wetterberg
Mar 6, 2012 at 1:06am

also, please spend more than a day doing the max tutorials before trying to implement LISP functions ;)

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Brad Garton

Brad Garton
Mar 6, 2012 at 1:24am

Or just use LISP:

http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/maxlispj/

brad

http://music.columbia.edu/~brad

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o s

o s
Mar 6, 2012 at 8:06am

is there a command ‘prepend’ in lisp? I only know ‘cons’…?

ole

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Guillaume Bertrand

Guillaume Bertrand
Mar 6, 2012 at 11:44am

I made these “zl append” and “zl prepend” abstractions a while ago, and I use them quite often :

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nickv91

nickv91
Mar 8, 2012 at 11:09pm

@Guillaume Bertrand
@grizzle

Yes your example were perfect Thank you a lot.
Also i will try to see that Max Lisp :)

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Christopher Dobrian

Christopher Dobrian
Mar 9, 2012 at 6:00am
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nickv91

nickv91
Mar 11, 2012 at 10:52am

thanks christopher :)

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kugelschreiber

kugelschreiber
Mar 13, 2012 at 3:10pm

or use zl group. only on object ;-)

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