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Simple question about lists and writing text files

nickv91 — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:16:43 +0000

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Spip — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:40:50 +0000

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

nickv91 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:09:36 +0000

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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Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Helmuth — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:03:30 +0000

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

nickv91 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:52:51 +0000

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???

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

AudioLemon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:58:13 +0000

is this what you are looking for?

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Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Wetterberg — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:06:17 +0000

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Brad Garton — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:24:39 +0000

Or just use LISP:

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

brad

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

o s — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:06:30 +0000

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

ole

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Guillaume Bertrand — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:44:43 +0000

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

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Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

nickv91 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:09:29 +0000

@Guillaume Bertrand
@grizzle

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

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

Christopher Dobrian — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:00:46 +0000

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Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

nickv91 — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:52:10 +0000

thanks christopher :)

Re: Simple question about lists and writing text files

kugelschreiber — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:10:47 +0000

or use zl group. only on object ;-)

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