Oops, you're right, that acomplished nothing but deeper confusion. There should be a way to convert strings <-> floats in vanilla without making a monstrous ascii-parsing patch. Seems like this shouldn't happen automatcally (99% of teh time it's probably a mistake) but there should be a way to do it when you actually want to...
cheers Miller On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:25:53PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > Hi Miller, > > Yeah but try replacing the 'print' with a float box. > > Cheers, > > Chris. > > On October 29, 2014 12:22:47 PM GMT+08:00, Miller Puckette <[email protected]> > wrote: > >Sorry if this patch gives you nightmares: > > > >[bang( > >| > >[oscformat 0] > >| > >[oscparse] > >| > >[set $1, bang( > >| > >[ ( > >| > >[print] > > > >Hit the bang, and the empty message box gets a "0", and the print says, > >"0". > > > >cheers > >Miller > > > >On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:02:17PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > >> Hi Frank, > >> > >> On 13/10/14 21:40, Frank Barknecht wrote: > >> > [bang( > >> > | > >> > [oscformat 0] > >> > | > >> > [oscparse] > >> > | > >> > [print] > >> > > >> > It will print "symbol 0"! > >> > >> Seems you can do this with "list tosymbol" and also "makefilename %d" > >- > >> any idea how I can get from one of those symbols back to a proper > >float > >> again? I am sure I should know this by now! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Chris. > >> > >> -- > >> http://mccormick.cx/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
