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From: Gartenstein, Jacob P
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 12:50 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] 
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Subject: Questions about External 
 
Dear Pd Community - 

I'm trying to create an object, via a pd external, which takes in several 
parameters, does internal calculations, and outputs several lists of floats.  
Part of the internal calculation process includes reading thousands of lines of 
equation coefficients from text documents.  These coefficients, along with the 
input parameters, are necessary to perform the internal calculations.  

I've linked the pd external, entitled trackingPlanets, which creates in pd but 
doesn't perform any of the desired functionality.  Pd crashes every time a bang 
hits the object, which is what triggers the internal calculations, including 
reading the text files.  Through the course of some tests, I've discovered that 
the text file reading functions cause pd to crash. 

My questions:

Is there some method to internally read data from text files in pd?

Are the internal calculations too much and causing pd to crash?

Are there more efficient methods of reaching my desired functionality that may 
help pd run more smoothly?

Thanks in advance for the help,

Jake Gartenstein 

Materials:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KYB9GyP31I9tGfwFnY7ctfUH24qvClXa?usp=sharing
 
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