Hello,

I want to have a list of strings that I want to print to a canvas, by a particular index

I found how to print a string with a message, but setting a variable(even with a pack) does not seem to work

also the string I want to print has to be part of a list (or something equivalent to a c++ switch/case

how do I do this ?

[num] index in the list of string
|
[list testa textb textc]
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[pack s]
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[c1 label $1

thanks

[edit:using "sel" did the trick as a switch/case but I had to create all cases, while indexing a list would have been more elegant]

@phil123456 You can do it like this:
canvas_label_id.pd

the other way of doing it is the way list-nth from list-abs does

@phil123456 And most list sorting can be done with messages.
done_by_message.pd
But @ingox has posted the more elegant solution.
David.

@whale-av i think your solution is nicer. Here is a minimal version of it:

done_by_message.pd

@ingox said:

@whale-av i think your solution is nicer. Here is a minimal version of it:

done_by_message.pd

works like a charm

thanks everyone

hi! so sorry to refloat an old post, but this solution is very close to what I need to do for a project I'm working on. the only difference is that I need to read a text file with a list of words (each one on its own line), instead of a "list" message. I can't figure it out, I hope someone can help me. thanks!

@jjplano Have a look at the [text] object.
You will need a [text define] which will hold the lines of text, and a [text get] object.
When you put a number (the line number of the text you want) into [text get] it will output that line,
David.

@whale-av said:

@jjplano Have a look at the [text] object.
You will need a [text define] which will hold the lines of text, and a [text get] object.
When you put a number (the line number of the text you want) into [text get] it will output that line,
David.

yeah! I figured it out, thanks!
the only thing I can't seem to achieve is to send a string with blank spaces to a canvas (no problem on that aspect with print)

@jjplano Escape each space with a \ if you need more than one space in a row.

@oid said:

@jjplano Escape each space with a \ if you need more than one space in a row.

thanks! just starting with pd, simple stuff is taking me hours to figure out