Hey,

i've a question and i hope you can give me an answer.

i'm new in programming and working with pd and i want to built a programm where i habe any kind of sliding controller and the value of this controller should reference to an objeckt in a table, list or index.

So if the slider value is 1 then a message should be print with the first element of the list.
Value 2 => list object 2
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....
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you see what I mean.

So I'm not really sure what object list, table or index fit for this action and how i can reference form the slider value to the element in the list?????

thx for your help

So if the slider value is 1 then a message should be print with the first element of the list.
Value 2 => list object 2

Hi Schurl.

I believe you are looking for something like this:

Download it here: patch.pd

In the top example I am associating a number 1-4 to a word, and using [msgfile] to find that word according to the number. The bottom example uses letters to do the same (it could also be words as well).

[msgfile] can also read files, if you prefer to input the table that way. Also, you must rewind this object when searching for elements, and that is why I use [rewind, find $1 *( in the patch above. Lastly, the asterisk in the previous message represents any value in the [msgfile] - that is, if you send it a message [find 1 foo( you will get the correct result, but [find 1 cat( you won't since this pair is not present, but if you use [find 1 *( it will search for any pair of values whose first element is 1.

I hope this helps, let me know if something is unclear about the patch above.

Take care,
Gilberto