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I'd like to simulate someone typing into [textedit], letter by letter (to keep it authentic). as if written by ghost hand..

my approach (unsurprisingly) merely outputs one word after another. any suggestions?

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and yeah, I've been dealing with the carriage returns for quite a while now..

Use cr, and connect it to a [textedit] object. The text written into the text edit object will be formatted correctly.

https://cycling74.com/forums/carriage-returns-in-sprintf

I'm not sure what he means by that. [sprintf cr,] doesn't do anything

taken from https://cycling74.com/forums/carriage-returns-in-sprintf - last comment..

if [atoi] would at least provide me with carriage return's integer equivalent (13).. then I'd have something to work with. instead it behaves as if carriage returns don't even appear in the text

thanks again for the typewriter, stephen!

buhu. there seems to be some limit in characters/letters :(

the Typewriter stops exactly after 254 characters (with spaces)

typing manually works like charm, no limits

This size limit is probably caused by zl queue default size. Maybe zl 2048 queue would be better.

thanks a million, patrick! didn't know about [zl queue]'s default size..

I would like to write text as if I was using a computer keyboard into a Textedit object via an external controller.

I have build a patch based on the examples found in this thread.

 to making it work as I wanted to ; I need to be able to trigger a carriage return, which I was not able to achieve without the help of Jasch external.

Though two things are not working for me with this solution ; I need to be able to trigger the BACKSPACE key so I can go backward and erase already triggered letters.

And also, with this external, I cannot trigger more than one SPACE keyboard presses, to make bigger spaces between words.

Does anyone has any idea how could I achieve my goals.

Hello All.
I would like to write text as if I was using a computer keyboard into a Textedit object via an external controller.
I have build a patch based on the examples found in this thread.
I had to use Jasch external (http://www.maxobjects.com) to making it work as I wanted to ; I need to be able to trigger a carriage return, which I was not able to achieve without the help of Jasch external.
 Though two things are not working for me with this solution ; I need to be able to trigger the BACKSPACE key so I can go backward and erase already triggered letters.
And also, with this external, I cannot trigger more than one SPACE keyboard presses, to make bigger spaces between words.
I have join my patch.
Does anyone has any idea how could I achieve my goals.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best.


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