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I've run into an issue with the cycle object (not cycle~). I want to send a "bgcolor x x x x" message through it to color certain parts of my gui but the cycle object cuts the message and sends "bgcolor" and then each of the numbers out seperately. If I add quotations then it'll keep the whole thing together but the objects receiving the object can't parse it. Am I just going to have to suck it up and use stacks and stacks of separate message boxes? Cycle seems like it would have been such a nice, clean solution :/

keeping-a-message-intact-going-through-cycle

Have a look at [tosymbol] and [fromsymbol] which will combine messages into a single string and then split them out again.

or build your own cycle patch using [counter] and [gate]

My "rotator" external allows you to enable/disable list separation. FAT OSX .mxo attached until I've had time to update my tools page.

Also the jit.cycle object leaves lists intact. If I recall, it's basically the same code as rotator.

Here's a javascript that will (hopefully) do what you want:

outlet(i++ % jsarguments[1],arrayfromargs(messagename,arguments));

i = Math.min(Math.max(x,0),jsarguments[1] - 1);

var mode = (jsarguments[2]>0);
var t = new Task(timer);
var i = 0;

function set(x) {
    i = Math.min(Math.max(x,0),jsarguments[1] - 1);
}

Thank you everyone! All of your responces were really helpful. I ended up going with a [route] based solution in the end, but I learnt a lot from your responces!

Keeping a message intact going through cycle?