Controlling groove~ via js

    jhindsight
    Mar 02 2016 | 1:45 pm
    Hi all - can anyone explain why this doesn't work? apologies for the screenshot but i can't workout how to embed a js file into copy compressed.
    at the minute all i want to do is bang the js object and it sends out the messages for looping groove~. i'll obviously be able to build this up into something more useful but for now even this basic thing won't work - groove~ just carries on looping for the full length of the sample. no error messages in the max window.
    Any ideas?
    thanks Matt
    • jvkr
      Mar 02 2016 | 3:16 pm
      Probably this works:
      outlet(0, "setloop", start, end);
    • jhindsight
      Mar 02 2016 | 4:28 pm
      hmmmn no, same issue. interestingly if you just pass out the numbers as a list and prepend setloop then it works so it must be an issue with the format of the 'setloop x y' message but ideally i'd like to do it straight from the js without the extra prepend.
    • jhindsight
      Mar 23 2016 | 1:19 pm
      kind of found the answer here https://cycling74.com/forums/jscript-adds-double-quotes-to-output/
      you have to use a variable to build the text first then what comes out of the outlet is a list rather than a symbol
      var outString = "setloop" outlet(0, outString , start, end);
      hopefully that'll be useful for someone else.