Thank you!
[mrpeach/binfile] works perfectly for what I need.
I was already using the "string" message with [text2d]. The problem was only to "read" the spaces with [textfile] which seems to be impossible. Reading it with [mrpeach/binfile] and changing it to a "string" message does the trick.
Ingo
Betreff: Re: [PD] how to type more than one "space" in GEM with [text2d] -
[textfile]
output?
On 2010-04-18 16:16, Martin Peach wrote:
Ingo Scherzinger wrote:
Is there an object that can read textfiles (or any other file type)
that
includes "spaces" and can output these spaces (as something) so I can convert them to "ascii 32" or "ascii 160"?
[mrpeach/binfile] will output raw bytes from any file, so spaces in a text file will show up as 32.
and Gem is (almost[1]) able to directly read these via the "string"
message.
that's all documented for [text3d], and all [text*] objects basically have the same interface.
gmasd IOhannes
[1] if you only use ASCII; if you want to use extended characters, you have to convert the UTF-8 bytes that you get out from [binfile] into Unicode-codepoint numbers. there's an abstraction somewhere in iem/unicode/ that does just that. i seem to remember that something like this was on the list just
recently...