Symbol box empty string

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sat, 29 Jan 2022 01:45:47 GMT

ddw_music — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 01:45:47 GMT

How do you overwrite the contents of a [symbol] object (not the GUI -- the storage object) with an empty string, and get an empty string out upon "bang"?

hjh

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:08:34 GMT

jameslo — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:08:34 GMT

@ddw_music Send the empty symbol [symbol(?

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:14:13 GMT

ddw_music — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 05:14:13 GMT

@jameslo said:

@ddw_music Send the empty symbol [symbol(?

So it is... thanks!

hjh

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sun, 13 Feb 2022 03:15:18 GMT

ddw_music — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 03:15:18 GMT

Bumping the thread... now I need to clear the display of a symbol box.

Sending "symbol" (as with [symbol]) displays "symbol." Also:

I don't want to use a list box because, in context, it really needs to be a symbol.

Sometimes I think dataflow environments have not done a good job with "nil" (Max has the same problem).

hjh

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sun, 13 Feb 2022 03:29:56 GMT

jameslo — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 03:29:56 GMT

@ddw_music Banging a [symbol] object that was never set to anything produces an output that will clear a symbol box.

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:22:53 GMT

ddw_music — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:22:53 GMT

@jameslo said:

@ddw_music Banging a [symbol] object that was never set to anything produces an output that will clear a symbol box.

OK, will try later, thanks.

hjh

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:20:07 GMT

ingox — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:20:07 GMT

@ddw_music As does a [symbol( message.

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:48:57 GMT

jameslo — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:48:57 GMT

@ingox Oh! I misunderstood...I thought @ddw_music was saying that it caused a symbol box to display "symbol", but it doesn't and maybe they wasn't.

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 02:24:20 GMT

ddw_music — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 02:24:20 GMT

@ingox said:

As does a [symbol( message.

Hm, I should have been more specific -- in this case I need to 'set' without triggering output. (Using a clip from the help patch may have been misleading.)

'set' with no argument doesn't change the display.

'set symbol' changes the display to 'symbol'.

'symbol' clears the display and outputs 'symbol' (the latter of which I need not to happen).

hjh

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:58:21 GMT

jameslo — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:58:21 GMT

@ddw_music OK, try [set \(
(I have no idea why that works...)

Edit: wha? [\(

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 04:33:18 GMT

ingox — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 04:33:18 GMT

@jameslo This works but unfortunately does not stay after saving and reopening the patch.

This seems to work: set_symbol.pd

Reply to Symbol box empty string on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:40:23 GMT

jameslo — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:40:23 GMT

@ingox Ah right, I should've seen that coming. OK here's another solution along those same lines:

Edit: also works with [115 101 116 32 0(