Michael Sperone

I want to use a [dial] object to control a timer. Where one full turn is 60s, and when you go all the way around, it can send a bang or something to make another number box go up one (minutes).

I first tried [match 59 0] and [match 0 59] (for turning the dial backwards). that worked well, except when I turn the dial fast (dial skips numbers when you go fast). I then tried something with [>] which I can only get working well for increasing values, and won't let you decrease.

Has anyone did anything like this before? Any ideas?

I want to use a [dial] object to control a timer.  Where one full turn is 60s, and when you go all the way around, it can send a bang or something to make another number box go up one (minutes).

I first tried [match 59 0] and [match 0 59] (for turning the dial backwards).  that worked well, except when I turn the dial fast (dial skips numbers when you go fast).  I then tried something with [>] which I can only get working well for increasing values, and won't let you decrease. 

Has anyone did anything like this before?  Any ideas?


dial-360-degrees-no-clipping-counting-each-revolution

here's 2 tries in 1 patch with comments, as you can see in the left one, it works unless you try to spin the dial too fast.

It's a little hackish but try this. You can't spin the dial extremely fast but it seems to work at reasonable speeds.

// dial outputs neg nums if spun too fast..

function msg_float(current)
{
// dial outputs neg nums if spun too fast..
current = Math.abs(current);

if (last > 0.6 && current < 0.4)
{
outlet(0, "inc");
last = 0.0;
}
else if (last < 0.4 && current > 0.6)
{
outlet(0, "dec");
last = 1.0;
}
else
last = current;
}

This seems to work great so far, I will put it into my patch later to see if it works as well in my full patch.

I was just thinking maybe it would require a javascript solution, and that I wanted to start learning js anyway just to have it as an extra tool I could use.

Thanks again, and of course it would be interesting to see if anyone else has alternate solutions to this as well.

Yeah, I was thinking there was probably an easier way, but I just went straight for the js. With some thinking, you could recreate that script with regular max objects though. I'd also be interested to see if someone else has a different way!

[dial] 360 degrees no clipping - counting each revolution