Hi, does anyone know how you set the initial contents of a dict? Can't seem to find anything that works...

initial-value-for-dict

u can take advantage of embeding Dict to the patcher . or pattr . u could also set values on loadbang . but i guess u are talking about something bigger than few values .

as of pattr and dict . there is an issue in max 7 lately , we have to wait for an update as to my knowledge .

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u can take advantage of embeding Dict to the patcher . or pattr . u could also set values on loadbang . but i guess u are talking about something bigger than few values . 

as of pattr and dict . there is an issue in max 7 lately , we have to wait for an update as to my knowledge .


If I'm correct you can either use a dict.pack (with all variables already set) and send that into the dict or just set up one message with everything declared and use a loadbang.

If I'm correct you can either use a dict.pack (with all variables already set)  and send that into the dict or just set up one message with everything declared and use a loadbang.


ok, i have played around with this stuff but was more after how to use the "initial value" field which is available as this makes things work nicely with m4l... for numbers etc it's quite easy to see what goes here... if the field is available in the inspector, there must be some format for specifying the data in that field...

Initial Value for Dict