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What is a good method to read multiline/formatted text from a text 

file and display the complete text(incl. linefeeds) in Max?

User clicks a thumbnail, bigger pic appears, text with info about 

this pic is read from file and displayed.

The text object just displays one line, and LCD doesn't understand CR/ 

What is a good method to read multiline/formatted text from a text  
file and display the complete text(incl. linefeeds) in Max?
The task at hand:
User clicks a thumbnail, bigger pic appears, text with info about  
this pic is read from file and displayed.
The text object just displays one line, and LCD doesn't understand CR/ 
LF, so you get one very long line.

displaying-multiline-text-from-file

Try filein and translate the ascii code into characters with itoa or 

spell, and create a new line whenever you encounter ascii 13.

Max JavaScript also has file i/o capabilities which you may find 

Try filein and translate the ascii code into characters with itoa or  
spell, and create a new line whenever you encounter ascii 13.
Max JavaScript also has file i/o capabilities which you may find  
useful, but I'd start with filein.

> User clicks a thumbnail, bigger pic appears, text with info about 

> this pic is read from file and displayed.

> The text object just displays one line, and LCD doesn't understand 

i don't know if you are a jitter user, but if you are, you could also 

check out jit.textfile - especially if you wouldn't mind to display 

the text with the use of jit.gl.text2d or so (but if you're dealing 

[ps ...so probably this reply is in the wrong forum now.?.]

> User clicks a thumbnail, bigger pic appears, text with info about  
> this pic is read from file and displayed.
> The text object just displays one line, and LCD doesn't understand  
> CR/LF, so you get one very long line.

i don't know if you are a jitter user, but if you are, you could also  
check out jit.textfile - especially if you wouldn't mind to display  
the text with the use of jit.gl.text2d or so (but if you're dealing  
with pictures anyway...)

[ps ...so probably this reply is in the wrong forum now.?.]


On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Jan Klug wrote:

> [ps ...so probably this reply is in the wrong forum now.?.]

Who cares -- The line is grey and arbitrary. I'm now subscribed to 

eight lists instead of one. Just post where you please. I think most 

people are on all of them anyway, which of course really defeats the 

purpose... I would've drawn the line at All Things Max versus All 

Who cares -- The line is grey and arbitrary. I'm now subscribed to  
eight lists instead of one. Just post where you please. I think most  
people are on all of them anyway, which of course really defeats the  
purpose... I would've drawn the line at All Things Max versus All  
Things Radial.

Unfortunately I'm not a Jitter user yet. Budget for this job is 0, so 

Unfortunately I'm not a Jitter user yet. Budget for this job is 0, so  
buying Jitter is not really an option.

Read your text from your file using filein into a zl group which has 

a sufficiently large argument so that no output is triggered 

Once you encounter character 13 in your stream of bytes, bang zl 

group, prepend "write" and send its output to LCD. First move its pen 

to the beginning of the line and down by an offset defined by your 

Please let me know whether this has been of any help.

Try this:
Read your text from your file using filein into a zl group which has  
a sufficiently large argument so that no output is triggered  
accidentally (e.g. 256).
Once you encounter character 13 in your stream of bytes, bang zl  
group, prepend "write" and send its output to LCD. First move its pen  
to the beginning of the line and down by an offset defined by your  
font size.

displaying multiline text from file