Combine data to list
Hi.
I'm trying to make at patch that will let you select a grouptrack to fold/unfold (something that will make it possible to midimap fold/unfold groups).
My plan is to first get all tracks, then use the is_foldable to check which one of the tracks that is group-tracks, and send these to a umenu item, so it's possible for me to choose which grouptracks i want to fold/unfold.
My problem is that after finding the grouptracks, i can't find a way to combine these to a list before sending them to the umenu. I know this probably is a stupid problem, but I'm quite new to this, so it'a problem even if it's stupid....
I've thought about splitting "id" and the id-number, then use zl.stream on both before combining the two list with zl.lace. But that didn't work out since i have to know how many numbers to combine with zl.stream, before combining them.
Hope anyone can help me with this problem.
This is abstract enough that you really do need to provide some kind of example patch of what you're doing.
Just iterate and process them one by one.
No need to combine them; unlike the live.menu object umenu supports appending to what is already there.
So you can safely setup a routine to handle any id's coming out (for example; I can imagine that using the track name is easier than merely displaying an ID ;-)) and add the result right into the menu.
Jesse: Sorry for wasting time with this question! I should have done that at once. Problem was just that the patch was a mess at that time after hours of frustrated max building.
A friend of mine who's a max programmer called and problem solved.
ShelLuser: Thanks very much. that's another solution that i ended up with, but seems to work better than mine!
By the way, I'm sharing the patch at Maxforlive.com if anyone need a way to midimap fold/unfold group
http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=448