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Kaspar

Hi forum,

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Please see the question in the below patch:

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Do you want a comma there so that the the first zero will be treated as a separate message when it's sent out? It would maybe be best to clarify that. It might be better to use $1, $2, $3 etc. in a message box rather than a prepend object.

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Kaspar

Hi,

Yes, let me clarify it a bit ... I need to feed the message to a line~ object, so I need a 0, in the beginning and the rest of the fading values to be variables.

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Pedro Santos

You can use the sprintf object like this:

"sprintf 0., %i %i %f"

%i is for int and %f for float. Each % argument creates a separate input, like pack or pak.

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Yeah, what I posted should work fine. That's the usual way to feed things variably to a line object.

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EDIT: Thanks Pedro! That was something I didn't know, will come in handy

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Kaspar

Thanks :-)

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I also found this:

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Since a comma in a message box effectively turns its content into two separate messages that are sent in succession, we could also send the two messages separately like this: