Hi,
You could use the [shell] object to run a little bash script that would ask the current time in milliseconds from your system, and send it as a seed to Pd using pdsend. This way you wouldn't need any extra command line arguments. I don't know whether this is worth the trouble, though.
Pierre.
2012/11/14 Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:53 +0000, Enrique Erne wrote:
Hi List!
Can a random number form 0 to 100 be generated with the following
requirements:
- No externals / Vanilla Pd only
- DSP must be off
- The patch is loaded with Pd through command line interface i.e.
pd -noprefs -nogui givemerandom.pd
- The output should not always be the same number
If you happen to start Pd always from bash / command-line, you do something like this:
pd -noprefs -nogui givemerandom.pd -send "seed $RANDOM"
and in your patch:
[r seed] | [seed $1( | [random]
However, I also would be interested in a solution that works without command-line arguments.
Roman
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