Dean Gregory D'Souza

This is my first post and I'm learning Max but am stuck with the pictslider.

Trying to map the slider X and Y values to the position of this Text Object but am unable to get it going inspite of using 'pattr'.

Have been stuck on this for many hours but have exhausted my current set of ideas. 

Any help would be really welcome. Thanks!

Control text with picture slider.maxpat

This is my first post and I'm learning Max but am stuck with the pictslider.
Trying to map the slider X and Y values to the position of this Text Object but am unable to get it going inspite of using 'pattr'.
Only the X values seem to update.
Have been stuck on this for many hours but have exhausted my current set of ideas. 
Any help would be really welcome. Thanks!

Hi everyone, 
This is my first post and I'm learning Max but am stuck with the pictslider.
Trying to map the slider X and Y values to the po

control-text-position-with-picture-slider

You have to send a list with the 2 values to the pattr object. Right now, how does the pattr object know what the 2 numbers are (X or Y)?

Thanks a ton Pedro. Understood this now though just wanted to check that you used letters 'i' in pack to signify 

[pack 0 0] also works... this way we are initializing the variable with 0?

Thanks a ton Pedro. Understood this now though just wanted to check that you used letters 'i' in pack to signify integers right. Meaning if you want floating point we use 'f'?

[pack 0 0] also works...  this way we are initializing the variable with 0?

i (integer) f (float) s (symbol: generic text/numbers)

The reason you never got to see the value of the Y is simple: Max objects output with a right-to-left order, so everytime an Y value is output and sent to the pattr object, an X value immediatly overrides it.

Exactly!
i (integer) f (float) s (symbol: generic text/numbers)
The reason you never got to see the value of the Y is simple: Max objects output with a right-to-left order, so everytime an Y value is output and sent to the pattr object, an X value immediatly overrides it. 

Hmm interesting... thanks so much Pedro... trying to port some of my earlier projects done in Processing to Max. Was used to the ControlP5 library in Processing for GUI elements. Though I can't believe how fast I am able to do things with 'patch cords'. Max is awesome!

Control text position with picture slider