stephane moreau

I'm trying to build nested dictionnaries, with dynamic key names. I figured out how to achieve that with the "keys" message to a dict.pack, and then feeding that dict.pack with another dict.pack with a given structure of keys.

(not sure my explanation is understable, see the patcher attached)

This works well, but only the first time.

I need to clear the final dictionnary and start the process of building it all over again. Here comes my problem : the dict.pack seems to remember all previous keys and feed the final dictionary with it :

As a result the final dictionary also show a "second" keys from ancient time, although i previously did clear the dict.

The dict.pact doesn't accept any message like clear or init or whatever to get rid of the previous keys (like a zlclear).

I've seen very few posts on this matter, with no solution given. I guess my understanding of dict.pack and nested dict might be wrong, as this behaviour is to me a major flaw making dict.pack totally useless. Where am I wrong ? Is there any straightforward way to build nested dictionaries ?

Until a better understanding I'll stick with the totally unelegant combine first::a etc and forget the dict.pack method...

Hi,

I'm trying to build nested dictionnaries, with dynamic key names. I figured out how to achieve that with the "keys" message to a...

clearing-dictpack

Here is a patch with an explicit howto : just follow the numbers

I guess my reading of the dict.pack helpfile was not that thourough...

As I now understand the dict.pack object is itself a dictionary. It needs to be explicitely named with the @name argument. I was thinking that the dict.pack object had to be connected to a named dict object. But no no no, just the @name argument, then any dict object with that same name now is correctly structured, with the possibility to send it the clear message. Obviously...

May this post help the ungifted scarce minority like myself...

clearing dict.pack ?