Load text not from message box
Hi all,
I would like to make a GUI for a patch where I want to have rendered text in GEM.
As text3d can read the loaded text from a [text( message box, unfortunately it is invisible if I use graph on parent.
How else can I load a text into text3d - even from a .txt file with openpanel?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm not sure I understand, but I've attached a simple patch where [text3d] is in a GOP subpatch and you can still write text from the parent patch. Is it something like this you want?
Alexandros,
yes this is what I meant, however this symbol object has an 80 character limit unfortunately. And from the other hand you can not save it, neither copy-paste a text into it. Looks like I would need something like an [open something.txt( message but without the message box, so I could have a bang e.g. in the GOP inside and a loadbang too outside so if I open the patch it already has the text string loaded, if I want to change the text I just have to rewrite the text file. Just I do not know how to load a txt file into text3d. Anyway thanks for your help. Ciao
Maybe [textfile] would do then?
You mean like this?
[read something.txt(
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[textfile]
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[text3d]
?
Did not work. Lost in my ideas and i am out of them looks like.
Maybe you should do something like
[read something.txt(
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[textfile]
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[text3d]
Don't really know, just guessing.
dead end street too. just does not work.
nothing else comes to my mind.
Just to make shure it's not a font-problem. Did you try to load a different font?!
What does "just does not work" mean?!...
In the attachment I send you the example patch, I tried to create after the suggestions.
Is it what you meant?
No luck for me to open and render it to GEM.
Please let me know where my mistake is 
thanks so far, Gents
Can't understand how [textfile] really works...help patch doesn't really help me. What about using [add2 $1( and save the contents of your text in a message? I guess this would only be a work around. Maybe posting in the #pixel section of the forum or the list would help you a bit more..
That works for me:
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