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Variable external to max


personal_username
Jun 26 2011 | 4:13 pm

Hi all,
I have 10 sounds and I want my patch to load file1.wav the first time it starts, file2.wav the second time I open the same patch, and so on…

What’s the quickiest way to do this?
I was wondering about writing a txt file from [shell] but how?
And moreover… Is there. A simpler way?
Thanks a lot!


Roman Thilenius
Jun 26 2011 | 5:23 pm

you can write a text file using [preset], [coll], or [text], thats much better.

and define a custom path inside the search path, like /patches/thisapp/thisappsprefs.txt

the folder /thisapp must be present prior to writing the file.


personal_username
Jun 28 2011 | 10:33 pm

Roman, i just got the time to get into that: very straightforward!
Thanks a lot!
PS i used text btw, didn’t know of an object for direct editing of txt files…

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