Hi I'm a newbie and I have a question.

I'm using Maelstorm's state saving abstraction which is 'save.me.mmd' in order to save datas in my patch.

But since I wanted to be able to save datas to text files as well, I'm trying to use it with sssad module that allows me to save message that was created by 'save.me.mmd' to a text file.

Of course I could just use sssad instead of Maelstorm's but I had some problem saving local datas with it. but Maelstorm's 'save.me.mmd' seemed to be working fine regarding this.

So, I've been trying to save message that was created by 'save.me.mmd', which looks like "vslider 127, number 20, hslider 10,".

but whenever I try to save this messege in sssad module, it seemed to save and load only the last data (e.g hslider 10)

All I can assume is it happens because the message with commas is not accepted as a list.

So is there any way that I can save and load the message that is written with commas?

I would be glad if somebody could teach me how to do it.
Sorry for my bad english.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/save.me.mmb.zip

Okay, so I figured out how to change comma list to a normal list.

so now [a 10, b20, c 30(

outputs "a 10 b 20 c 30"

but can anyone tell me how to do a reverse way?

what should I do if I want to bang "a 10 b 20 c 30" to make a message that shows

[a 10, b 20, c 30( or send 'a 10' 'b 20' 'c 30' seperately by order?

Please help me

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/listmaker.pd

To be honest, I think it might be easier to just not use [sssad]. Everything you need to do, including saving to a text file, is demonstrated in the [my.hero.mmb] helpfile.

Thank you so much Maelstorm!!

a quick question, How do I save and load the messagebox that have created by save.me.mmb?

I want to make it available to save parameters in abstraction and also save whole patch including other abstractions as well.

Since the messagebox shows values like [vslider 10, number 20( , it seem to save only last data.

I'm guessing there would be an easy way to do this, but I'm a newbie so any advice would be a huge help.

@cuinjune said:

a quick question, How do I save and load the messagebox that have created by save.me.mmb?

I want to make it available to save parameters in abstraction and also save whole patch including other abstractions as well.

Since the messagebox shows values like [vslider 10, number 20( , it seem to save only last data.

I'm guessing there would be an easy way to do this, but I'm a newbie so any advice would be a huge help.

Look at [pd save.to.file] in the [my.hero.mmb] helpfile to see how to put that message box into [textfile]. Comma-separated messages in a single message box are just the same thing as if all of those messages happened one after the other. Using [prepend add] makes sure that all of them get added to [textfile].

Also, look at [pd abstractions] for a relatively simple way of using [save.me.mmb] and [my.hero.mmb] to collect the state of the abstraction and dump them into a single [save.me.mmb] in the parent patch.

I've been working a bit lately on adding some functionality to these that might simplify things a bit when dealing with abstractions or, at the very least, add some flexibility. I'm not going to take away any functionality, so whatever you decide to do will still work. I also intend on adding an example to the helpfile that won't require a [dump( message for the abstraction, but that concept should really only be used for abstractions that are written solely for the main patch. I'm actually hoping to get it done within the next couple of days.

At any rate, I think that what you want to do can still be easily done with these abstractions using what's given in the helpfile. But finding that middle-ground between flexibility and ease-of-use means that there is going to be a bit of a learning curve when you start saving layers of abstractions. So keep at it. If you still can't figure it out, post a patch showing what you have so far and explain what you want it to do.

Thank you Maelstorm!! I'm glad now I understand everything!!
I look forward to seeing your new version