Cycling 74 » Topic: umenu last item detect

umenu last item detect

phil hughes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:52:01 +0000

hi all

I know this should more than simple but hey sometimes you get surprises !

I am using folder to get the aiff < - or any file type from a specific path. I also use filewatch to signal when the folder in the path is changed . <- ie file type wanted is added to folder.

now of course this fills a umenu< - but umenus are alpha numeric<- what I want is to know the last item that was added to the umenu from folder.

My solution was to take what was coming out of [folder] and make into a list and then compared 2 lists.

I have searched to max object list site but can’t find an external to compare two list and point out what is different.

What would be even easier is simply to know what item was last added to the [umenu]

I know it’s simple but hey
maybe regexp?

thanks a lot

phil

Re: umenu last item detect

georghajdu@mac.com — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:47:16 +0000

It quite easy to create an abstraction that will compare two lists of symbols and output the most recent elements using standard Max objects. This is an example for it:

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Georg

Re: umenu last item detect

phil hughes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:01:27 +0000

thanks a lot georghajdu

cheers

phil

Re: umenu last item detect

Luke Hall — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:49:39 +0000

You could also try [zl compare] and [zl lookup] as shown below.

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Re: umenu last item detect

phil hughes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:41:09 +0000

thanks a lot thereishopeforus

A lot more simple but I was trying to do it on max 4.6. .

If there were a zl compare in 4.6 it would be fine .

thanks

phil