David F. Place wrote: > Recently, I sent a message complaining about the behavior of > [textfile]. I learned about [msgfile] in the zexy library and thought > it would solve my problems, but it has not. > > I have distilled my complaints in the attached patch. > 1.) [textfile] blows the stack on too low a number. The stack should > be bigger. ...or maybe a startup option for Pd.
hmm, adding a bigger stack will just push the problem to LATER, it is not a solution. one solution would be, to not use the stack at all, if it is possible. in your case, this is fairly easy (see attached patch). hint: [until] > 2.) [msgfile] doesn't seem to work at all when you barrage it with > consecutive bangs. i'll try to fix that. in the meantime, there is a [flush( message, will output all messages in [msgfile] fm.asdr IOhannes
#N canvas 414 295 704 568 10; #X obj 15 13 zexy; #X msg 246 391 print; #X msg 347 340 rewind; #X obj 266 458 msgfile; #X obj 310 488 print done; #X obj 279 246 print; #X msg 242 132 print; #X msg 328 75 rewind; #X obj 330 242 print done; #X obj 407 76 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144 -1 -1; #X obj 279 192 textfile; #X msg 135 338 clear \, read test4.txt; #X msg 110 76 clear \, read test4.txt; #X msg 150 360 clear \, read josquin.seq; #X msg 130 101 clear \, read josquin.seq; #X text 99 22 [textfile] succeeds with the file test4.txt \, but blows the stack on josquin.seq; #X text 103 290 [msgfile] blows the stack on both and just outputs the first record over and over.; #X text 113 57 1.); #X text 328 54 2.); #X text 405 52 3.); #X text 136 322 1.); #X text 351 319 2.); #X text 428 317 3.); #X obj 397 127 until; #X obj 327 216 t b b; #X msg 438 343 flush; #X obj 250 503 print; #X connect 1 0 3 0; #X connect 2 0 3 0; #X connect 3 0 26 0; #X connect 3 1 4 0; #X connect 6 0 10 0; #X connect 7 0 10 0; #X connect 9 0 23 0; #X connect 10 0 5 0; #X connect 10 1 24 0; #X connect 11 0 3 0; #X connect 12 0 10 0; #X connect 13 0 3 0; #X connect 14 0 10 0; #X connect 23 0 10 0; #X connect 24 0 8 0; #X connect 24 1 23 1; #X connect 25 0 3 0;
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