matthewyannascoli@hotmail.com

I'm fairly new to the workings of Pattrstorage and its associated objects and am running into a problem getting it to function how I would like with ubumenu.

I am using ubumenu to store a list of file paths in several seperate patchers. Instead of having to manually save each ubumenu file I would like to do it in one fell swoop which will probably entail pattrstorage. Ideally I would like pattrstorage to represent exactly what is in my ubumenus, that is if I remove or add an index or clear the an entire list of items within ubumenu pattrstorage will represent this change. But... pattr seems to only "see" the value of the current index and not the others in the ubemenu and therefore can only be updated one item at a time. This is a pain and makes it difficult to sync the two objects...

Can I get around this and achieve my desired result? Do I have to resort to all sorts of data manipulation chaos at the hands of coll? Am I missing or misunderstanding something? HELP!

I'm fairly new to the workings of Pattrstorage and its associated objects and am running into a problem getting it to function how I would like with ubumenu.  

I am using ubumenu to store a list of file paths in several seperate patchers.  Instead of having to manually save each ubumenu file I would like to do it in one fell swoop which will probably entail pattrstorage.  Ideally I would like pattrstorage to represent exactly what is in my ubumenus, that is if I remove or add an index or clear the an entire list of items within ubumenu pattrstorage will represent this change. But... pattr seems to only "see" the value of the current index and not the others in the ubemenu and therefore can only be updated one item at a time.  This is a pain and makes it difficult to sync the two objects...

Can I get around this and achieve my desired result?  Do I have to resort to all sorts of data manipulation chaos at the hands of coll?  Am I missing or misunderstanding something? HELP!


ubumenu-and-pattrstorage

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem, but you want pattrstorage to 

remember _all_ of the values in the ubumenu? Or you want pattrstorage to 

remember the item in the ubumenu based on its name, rather than on its 

index. If the latter, send the message "pattrmode 1" to ubumenu. If the 

former, you'll need to use a coll or something to back up the contents 

of your menu. pattrstorage won't do what you want here.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem, but you want pattrstorage to 
remember _all_ of the values in the ubumenu? Or you want pattrstorage to 
  remember the item in the ubumenu based on its name, rather than on its 
index. If the latter, send the message "pattrmode 1" to ubumenu. If the 
former, you'll need to use a coll or something to back up the contents 
of your menu. pattrstorage won't do what you want here.

I was trying to describe the 1st situation you mentioned...

I was affraid that is what the answer would be. Any idea of whether pattrstorage will ever be able to store data structures or lists or things of that sort or is coll the dedicated alternative?? Would this be too much to ask computationally speaking?

I was affraid that is what the answer would be.  Any idea of whether pattrstorage will ever be able to store data structures or lists or things of that sort or is coll the dedicated alternative??  Would this be too much to ask computationally speaking?  

It has nothing to do with pattrstorage's storage capabilities, but 

rather with this abstract notion of "value". The "value" of an ubumenu 

is not the list, but the item in the list (whether by index, in the case 

of a static list, or by name, in the case of a more dynamic one). If 

someone were to make a menu object, for which the "value" were defined 

as the list itself, pattr/storage could handle it.

It has nothing to do with pattrstorage's storage capabilities, but 
rather with this abstract notion of "value". The "value" of an ubumenu 
is not the list, but the item in the list (whether by index, in the case 
of a static list, or by name, in the case of a more dynamic one). If 
someone were to make a menu object, for which the "value" were defined 
as the list itself, pattr/storage could handle it.

Here is one idea..... haven't finished it completely, but it could easily be made functional.... it remembers only the items in the menu at this point....

you could make the last item in the array 'the currently selected item'....then it would do what you wan't (i guess:-)

looks interesting, but I couldn't get your text into a patcher.

Just copy the text.... goto the maxMSP menubar and select 'New From Clipboard'......

ubumenu and pattrstorage