Removing " (quotes) from the message object display

Paulo Germano

Hi Guys,

I'm writing a patch to receive SysEx messages from my Mackie Control Unit (X-Touch) and display the same information as the LED displays on the hardware. I managed to get everything working my only "problem" is that I'm using a message object to show the resulting text and every time it displays the text between quotes.
Like: "EQFlip Audio 16 Page:02/02 "
instead of the: EQFlip Audio 16 Page:02/02

Is there any way to set the message box to don't show the " quotation ?

Thanks a lot

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fromsymbol

Max Patch

Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Paulo Germano

Thanks for the reply.
The problem with that solution is that Lines with a lot of spaces like this one :
EQFlip Audio 16 Page:02/02
Will be:
EQFlip Audio 16 Page:02/02

It will remove the spaces. And they are really necessary to line up things (on a monospaced font).

Is there any solution that will not remove the spaces ??

Thanks,
PG

Roman Thilenius

if it wouldnt show the quotes around a symbol which includes space characters you wouldnt be able to tell the different between

"a b c"

and

"a " "b " c

to place 3 characters/strings at certain positions you could use 3 different message boxes - or certain jitter objects.

also, printing to an [lcd] will not show quotes around a symbol:

Len Richardson

Maybe consider the comment object in this case prior to a message object?

Max Patch

Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Paulo Germano

Thanks for the help guys... the Comment object indeed did the job!