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I am having trouble finding a way to pause the [line] object. Why is it that I can send the messages 'pause' and 'resume' to the [line~] object and not to the [line] object?

Is there a simply way of doing this without crossing over into MSP terrain?

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line takes a stop message, but not pause/resume. I suppose you could do some work to figure out where one had gotten to upon the receipt of a stop message, so as to be able to set a new target if you needed to resume, but that sound like way more work than using line~ and snapshot~

edit...its not the real thing, but maybe a starting point.

However, I thought that there'd be an easier way? Is there a valid reason for the omission of a pause messages from the [line] object?

line was born some years before line~. If you're absolutely dead set against using line~, here's a way to manipulate messages to line to make it behave much like line~

Looking at your line patch and fooling around with it in MAX7, I noticed that after having pressed 'resume', line continues at a much slower rate... Do you have any idea what that might cause? I'm sure I'm overlooking something!

(years later...) Thank you, Chris.
Looking  at your line patch and fooling around with it in MAX7, I noticed that after having pressed 'resume', line continues at a much slower rate... Do you have any idea what that might cause? I'm sure I'm overlooking something!
Thanks in advance. JB

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