There ought to be a way to do this - some other object than [text define] should be able to do 'read' and 'write' operations. Perhaps this needs to be added to the [pointer] object somehow. (For a long time I've wished for a better suite of objects to traverse data structures but can't find a good design :)
Miller
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 01:18:19PM -0700, Derek Kwan wrote:
Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu writes:
Not sure if this really works yet but...
You should be able to use [text tolist] and [text fromlist] to copy the entire contents of a text inside a scalar (struct) into a [text define] - and from there to/from a file.
cheers Miller
Hello,
Correct, this works. I was just hoping for the ability to use these methods "directly" on a text struct member without these extra steps or overhead, but perhaps the text being a member of a struct makes things a little bit more complicated... I could see an abstraction using a "proxy" [text] instance and automating the [text fromlist/tolist] steps helping out the situation though. Thanks!
Derek
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