Display the Contents of Coll in the Max patch

Oli Mason's icon

Hi Everyone,

What i want to do is display the contents of a coll as it updates in a comment box or some other kind of neat and tidy display?

Any ideas?

Regards,

Oli

pdelges's icon

Maybe with a jit.cellblock? See ther refer message.

KrisW's icon

yes cellblock is really suitable for that . I had also good relation with [Dict] and [Dict.view] objects ,those are directed for such scenarios i guess . take a look .

Oli Mason's icon

Great help guys, thanks a lot (sorry for the late reply, internet down at my house!!)

Regards,

Oli

jrs1's icon

Wow. I've been wanting this feature for ages - view a coll in realtime to debug things. I had no idea that Jitter had useful 'non-video' objects. I'm gonna explore some more

Roman Thilenius's icon


router, pak, ubumenu, bline, qmetro, patcherargs, bgcolor and some others also originally were introduced with the jitter package.

(i am not sure why cellblock once was called "jit." at all, mabye to distinguish from the former third party version?)

jit.lcd and jit.pwindow can be quite useful for building custom interface elements.

jit.matrix can make a great (half-3D) lookup table/database for numbers, for in-patcher applications as well as exporting the matrix content in binary format.

Lucas Rei Ramos's icon

TIL this! Thanks for the trick!
However, is there any way to filter some columns? Specifically the index, it's not always necessary.

Source Audio's icon

once you refer coll it is not possible to filter out parts of it in cellblock
but you can hide for example coll index using message
col 0 width 0

or any other column

Lucas Rei Ramos's icon

That will do! Thanks!

Roman Thilenius's icon


yeah, "width 0". :P