Hi There!

I'm new in PD, and I'm testing some simple patches with Arduino. Everything was right interfacing with Arduino, no problems there and works fine.

Now I've got several toggle buttons like this one that sends somethig like "X number":
[ ] [X]
| | ...
[Z $1]
and what I want is concatenate the output of each of this message boxes to form a string like this one:
U 1 Z 1 G 0 #
I don't know how to do it. It seems very simple, but I've been looking for the solution two days, using pack, list and so on, but nothing worked correctly.
Thanks in advance,
F. Alvarez

list2symbol (l2s) from zexy might help you.

also, do a search for the pd 'list abs' ..(list abstractions) ..there will be stuff in there to do what u want.

Thanks! That was very useful

REALLY STRANGE LIST BEHAVIOUR

Hi there!

After looking for a solution for making a string concatenation I've done this:

When I put a print block at the output, I get this:

list Q 0 U 0 G 1 Z 0 3 0 A 0 B 0 S 0 N 0 D 0 M 0 #

and that's *aparently* what I need to send to the pd2ascii symbol (part of SimpleMessageSystem)

The annoying and frustrating thing is that this block sends this message in the PD window:

pd2ascii does not understand Z

And it doesn't when I send directly the string from a message box! Exactly the same message: list Q 0 U ... !!

Could someone give me any idea? I'm really confused... Every time I think the end for this patch is near, I get a hard-to-understand-for-me error. And that was the final step!

Thanks in advance. Advices like "you're crazy using this instead of this other thing" are also welcome.

Any hints on how to do this in Vanilla Pd? I'm using libpd, and it doesn't have access to the externals (unless I compile them, which I could, but...)