HI all,

Consider the following patch, test.pd :

Basically, when the [metro] is started, I'm having a message printed every 100 ms - this is as expected.

However, this is what I'd like to do: put some sort of a "bucket" object at the output of the [hello $1 world $1( message box, and then have that "bucket" output connected to [print]. So, the incoming messages at 100 ms would be "collected"/"collated" by the "bucket" object, and nothing would be printed by [print] - and then when I "bang" the "bucket" object, either:

• All messages received so fat would be output on the "bucket" object outlet, causing them to be printed
• I would get a message such as "10 messages received" or similar, depending on how many messages arrived in the previous period

As soon as the "bucket" object is "bang"ed in this way, it is "emptied", and a new period of collection can start again.

Is there an object that does this in PD vanilla - or is there a combo of vanilla objects I could use to achieve this?

OK, I got the counting part solved - test.pd :

Simply another counter has to be added, it will count incoming messages on the cold inlet, and receive a slow "bang" on the hot one - and at the same time, this "bang" can reset this another counter...

However, it will still be nice to know if there is a way to collect (and output) actual messages..

@sdaau_ml ...... [qlist] will do that, and you can time tag the messages as well.
Use [list prepend add] to send your message into qlist..... it will put each message on a new line.
Then send [qlist] the [print( message when you want to print all to the terminal.
Click [qlist] or send it a [click( message if you want to open a window to see the messages stored.
[clear( will empty it.
It will not tell you how many messages are stored...... but you have done that bit already.

The [text] objects with [text define] will do it all though..........
[text] will also save messages, and you can retrieve them and query the lists.
[text size] will tell you how many lines have been added.
[text sequence] will do much the same as [qlist], send the messages out, etc.

[textfile] might be easier to handle than [text] though.... for your purpose, now that you have built your counters..... unsure about that though...... [text] would probably be best.
David.

@sdaau_ml Here is an example with [text]: message-bucket.pd