Cycling 74 » Topic: zl group to create very long list http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:55:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-59971 <![CDATA[zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-59971 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:40:33 +0000 Jack James Hi Everyone,

Does zl group have a maximum number of elements it can combine into a single list?

Is that number 75?

I’m trying to create very long lists which I will be able to copy and paste into another programme.

Is there anything out there that might be able to help me?

Thanks

Jack

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215915 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215915 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:42:37 +0000 Luke Hall The default length is 256, you can extend this up to about 32768 list items by specifying it as an argument before the [zl] mode: [zl 2048 group 1234] for example.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215916 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215916 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:57:57 +0000 Jack James Thanks Luke,

thats great!

Jack

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215917 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215917 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:51:04 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan in max 6, you can also write [zl.group 1234 @zlmaxsize 2048].

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215918 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215918 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:49:52 +0000 David Butler Another tip that may or may not be useful, you can specify the zl group size as -1, which will cause the the inputed elements to be continuously added to the list and outputted when a bang is sent or when the maximum list length is reached. This is quite useful for joining an unspecified number of lists, for example, when dumping data from a coll.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215919 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215919 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:35:19 +0000 Floating Point The -1 feature does not seem to be documented anywhere. Wish I’d known about it earlier.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215920 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215920 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:23 +0000 David Butler I’m not sure if it’s so much a feature, more giving the object an argument which it logically can never reach, therefore preventing the automatic output from functioning.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215921 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215921 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:51:48 +0000 Jack James -1 argument is very useful, dumping information from a coll is exactly what I’m trying to do. Now I’m having problems with message and comment boxes, I think its because I’ve got too many elements in the list. Is the an argument I need to add somewhere?

Jack

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215922 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215922 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:10:30 +0000 Roman Thilenius we dont know if it is not eventually possible to reach -1 when you only count upwards long enough.

i think one day you an reach -1, i am just not sure if it will be int or float.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215923 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215923 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:51:53 +0000 David Butler If the limit of zl list lengths is 32768 then you will never reach -1 as the list will be outputted and the buffer length reset to 0 when you hit this value.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215924 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215924 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:17:51 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan actually there’s nothing specific about the -1, the argument defines the number of items to group. -1 is obviously not a lot ;-) David’s example works the same without it.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215925 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215925 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:40:19 +0000 Christopher Dobrian Since the OP mentioned the desire to copy the collected items and paste them into another application, maybe the capture object is appropriate.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215926 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215926 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:00:04 +0000 Jack James I thought the capture object was going to be perfect for what I wanted to do but unfortunately when I format the text with a comma after each element and then try to view the text Max crashes. Does this happen to anyone else?

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215927 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215927 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:24:38 +0000 Christopher Dobrian Yes, I can confirm that it crashes Max 6 for me, too.

The comma is a special reserved character in Max messages, serving to divide a message into separate messages. For example, the message “foo, baz, boogers” in a message box will send out three separate messages, one word each. (You may already have known that, but strangely, mention of that important fact seems to no longer exist anywhere in the Max docs.) So apparently your commas are confusing the heck out of capture.

It shouldn’t crash, though. I suggest submitting a bug report.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215928 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215928 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:17:49 +0000 Jack James I will do, its a bit of a frustration through as I’m in the middle of a project and didn’t expect writing a long list of numbers to be an overly complicated task…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215929 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215929 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:12:54 +0000 seejayjames Confirmed crash here on XP, Max 5.1.8, with only two values in [capture]

Not good…

I made an example with [text] that pretty much works, though interestingly if you put the commas in, the [cr] function won’t show up in the output. Can’t quite figure out why…

If you’re pasting into Excel or similar, you could use tabs instead, and import that way.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215930 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215930 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:31:25 +0000 Jack James Thanks, the text example you made object works well. Much appreciated

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215931 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215931 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:02:32 +0000 Tiago Morgado use Lbuild of Lobjects library.. much easier

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215932 <![CDATA[Re: zl group to create very long list]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/zl-group-to-create-very-long-list/#post-215932 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:08:24 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan @jack’s problem has been fixed for the next incremental. Thanks for finding it.

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