save contents of array flag via message?

Reply to save contents of array flag via message? on Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:00:18 GMT

yannseznec — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:00:18 GMT

Each time I load a sound into an array using soundfiler that array will automatically have the "save-in-patch flag" cleared. I know this is normal behavior, but sometimes I don't want that to happen. So is there a way of setting an array to save the contents with a message of some kind? currently to do that after loading a new sound into the array I have to:

right-click
select "properties"
tick the checkbox for "save contents"
click OK
click OK again for the other array properties window

this feels needlessly tedious. have I missed something obvious? maybe a flag for when I'm loading the sound in soundfiler? or is there something I can do using the [array] object?

Reply to save contents of array flag via message? on Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:36:10 GMT

seb-harmonik.ar — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:36:10 GMT

@yannseznec just looking through the code, you can send an "arraydialog" message.

The message has the arguments:
name, size, flags, delete
delete is 0 or 1 (for if the array in the graph should be deleted)

flags is composed of:

the draw "pointstyle": 0 is polygon, 1 is points, 2 is bezier curve
the save-in patch flag (what you're interested in). 1 is save in patch, 0 is don't.

flags is made by multiplying the value from step 1 by 2 and then adding it to the save-in-patch flag from step 2

so for instance to add the save-in-patch flag to the default array from the "Put" menu that has had its save-in-patch flag cleared (keeping the "drawstyle" as points):

[arraydialog array1 100 3 0(
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[send array1]

Reply to save contents of array flag via message? on Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:59:59 GMT

yannseznec — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:59:59 GMT

@seb-harmonik.ar that's brilliant, thanks so much! so far it's working perfectly.