Thanks Derek - this took care of the problem ! :) Donal
----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Donal Carey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [PD] coll object > Did you use [col] to create the textfile? Or is it a random textfile? > Formatting is important. A sample: > > 1, ah_yes.wav; > 2, hokoji.loop.wav; > 3, kenchoji.loop.wav; > > Maybe try to format it in this way? > > d. > > Donal Carey wrote: >> Hi all >> Apoligies if this is not the correct place for asking these sorts of >> questions. >> Can the 'coll' object read items from a text file? >> What I want to do is have several messages stored in a textfile, load >> them into coll and then output them one at a time. Is this possible, >> everytime I try and load a text file into coll I get the error ... >> "coll: bad atom >> error (miXed): coll: error reading text file 'C:/Documents and >> Settings/Donal/Desktop/pd project/clips/masterText.txt" >> Thanks and regards >> Donal >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: > http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista > ---Oblique Strategy # 202: > "Back up a few steps. > What else could you have done?" > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
