What I wanted was: Click one message box to read into a [soundfile]. Then, when you send it a 'bang', I wanted it to pop out the first entry. But, after reading, you have to 'bang' it once to trigger the [textfile] right outlet (for reset). I also wanted seamless looping (no extra bang to reset).

That is:

• Bang the 'read' message box: Read and prepare, no left-outlet result from [textfile].
• Bang [textfile] once: First row.
• Bang [textfile] again: Next row, until last row auto-resets.

I came up with this but it looks a bit byzantine. Is there a more elegant way?

hjh

@ddw_music Messages are the blood of Pd.
"That's the way to do it" ..... (Punch and Judy voice).

Ok..... seriously.......
It's fine but a bit overdone.
I understood that you only have the one filename (with spaces...... that was the problem to be solved).
Once it is read into [soundfiler] you don't need to read it in again to be able to make the table loop.
Or did you mean [readsf~]
If [readsf~] and only one filename then the right outlet of [readsf~] will need to bang.......

[rewind, bang(

into [textfile]
as [textfile] still contains the filename.
The "start" message would be [read 19-0819-sequence.txt, bang(
as you open the patch.
David.

@ddw_music Does this work for you?

@ingox Yes, that does it. Last night, I got stuck thinking that I needed to queue up the first item during initialization, but I was starting to realize later that I could just allow the first incoming bang to go out the right outlet and trigger the [rewind, bang( message.

The only catch is that, if textfile reading fails, then a bang produces a stack overflow. But it doesn't crash anything, so that's fine.

@whale-av Oh geez, I put the wrong object name in the thread title. I meant [textfile]. Sorry about that. I'll try to fix it (edit: can't fix it).

hjh

@ddw_music Yes, this is unfortunate. It is probably better to use [text] for more control.

The control tutorials include "sequencing with [qlist] and [textfile]" -- if [text] is the new way, I couldn't have found it without prior knowledge.

Just checked the help patch -- that does look more useful.

hjh