Daniel Grigsby

Hi everyone. A few questions about reading text files....

1. Is there an object in Max that would allow me to poll a text file with the extension .csv (comma separated values)?

2. Since this file is being updated fairly regularly, is there a text file reading object that will detect changes to the text file and only spit out data when the text file is updated? I'd rather avoid excessive polling of the text file.

Hi everyone. A few questions about reading text files....
1. Is there an object in Max that would allow me to poll a text file with the extension .csv (comma separated values)?

polling-remote-text-file

Oops. Just a clarification, forget about the "remote text file" part of the title. My patch won't necessarily be polling a remote text file, though, I'd like it eventually to be possible.... if anyone has any insight on that.

oops again, the [text] object doesn't seem to have a problem with the .csv extension of my file. That problem is solved... 

But my other question remains. How could I detect a change in the text file so that I can poll it only when there's been a change? Is there a better object than [text]?

oops again, the [text] object doesn't seem to have a problem with the .csv extension of my file. That problem is solved... 
But my other question remains. How could I detect a change in the text file so that I can poll it only when there's been a change? Is there a better object than [text]?


On 14 juin 07, at 18:22, Daniel Grigsby wrote:

> But my other question remains. How could I detect a change in the 

> text file so that I can poll it only when there's been a change? Is 

> But my other question remains. How could I detect a change in the  
> text file so that I can poll it only when there's been a change? Is  
> there a better object than [text]?

polling remote text file