Make words appear letter by letter

JvB's icon

Hi there

Just started with max/jitter so I'm a newbie here
For a project, I'm reading words from a .txt file with 'coll'. I want to make the words appear letter by letter, so that it looks/feels like the text is written in real-time. Can someone help me on this one to get me started?

And subquestion for extra bonus points: how do I get some breaks between the lines in the text?

Thanx in advance!

ch's icon

You may be highly interested by the last patch posted (by Stefan Tiedje 3 days ago) on this thread :

Remover's icon

you could try a piece of javascript...
editfontsize = 14;

var a;
var b = "";

function anything(a){

this.a = arrayfromargs(arguments);

    for(i=0;i

    this.b+=this.a[i];
    this.b+= " ";
    post(this.b);
    post();

    }
}

var counter = 0;
function bang(){// click bang to bang out the next letter

post(this.b.charAt(counter));
counter++;

}

JvB's icon

Great, thanx. Overlooked the thread by stefan tiedje i guess.