Thanks Jonathan -- José's solution uses that convention and works, but I'm so new to PD that I don't really understand what the rest of his app is doing. :-)
All -- I really appreciate your assistance on this. I've been looking for any solution to this problem for 2 days now and in the last 4 hours so many of you have just jumped in to help.
I just wanted to say THANKS! This is a great group!
Adam D. Benalt Production Technology Director 212-664-1142 desk MSNBC
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Wilkes [mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:44 PM To: Pall Thayer; Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: RE: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to a TXT File
Oh, I see. In that case, just use [write my_textfile.txt( and my_textfile.txt will be saved in the same folder as your patch.
-Jonathan
--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) adam.benalt@msnbc.com wrote:
From: Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) adam.benalt@msnbc.com Subject: RE: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to a TXT File To: jancsika@yahoo.com, "Pall Thayer" palli@pallit.lhi.is Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 2:40 AM Thanks Jonathan, This works as you noted below, however I need this to be an automated process. At least a couple of times per second, writing one numeric value to the same text file over and over again. Then I can query it as needed and it will return the VU level at that moment.
Pall -- This concept seems simpler than using terminal, as I'm not really familiar with how that will work.
Adam D. Benalt Production Technology Director 212-664-1142 desk 646-306-4751 blackberry MSNBC
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Wilkes [mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:59 PM To: Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC); Pall Thayer Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to a TXT File
Hi Adam, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do with that patch, but if you're having trouble with file names in windows, use the following chain of objects:
[bang( | [savepanel] | [write $1( | [textfile]
In this case, "bang" and "write $1" are messages (created with <ctrl-2>), and "savepanel" and "textfile" are objects (<ctrl-1>).
When you connect them together, click the bang message at the top and you will get the standard "save as" dialog box. The filename will be automatically formatted, so you don't have to worry about typing in backslashes or whatever.You can right click and choose "help" to get info on any pd object (as well as messages, arrays, gui's, etc).
-Jonathan
--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is wrote:
From: Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is Subject: Re: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to a TXT
File
To: "Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC)"
Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 1:13 AM Have you tried
[write
C:/tmp/textfile.txt] ?
I haven't run PD on Windows in years, so I'm
not sure and have no way
of testing.
On 3.4.2009, at 23:05, Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) wrote:
Yeah, that's what I thought at first. But, when I try to enter a back-slash
''
I get an error in the print
window that says "keycode 92: dropped" Also the help file shows the slashed the way I
wrote
them, I just
copied what was in there.
Thanks again.
Adam D. Benalt Production Technology Director 212-664-1142 desk 646-306-4751 blackberry MSNBC
-----Original Message----- From: Pall Thayer [mailto:palli@pallit.lhi.is] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:02 PM To: Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to a
TXT
File
I would think that on Windows you have to do
something
like [write C:
\tmp\textfile.txt] but I'm not
positive.
Anyway, the problem I see is
the path to the file. /tmp/textfile.txt means
nothing
to Windows.
best r. Pall
On 3.4.2009, at 22:54, Benalt, Adam D (NBC
Universal,
MSNBC) wrote:
Thanks Pall -- I appreciate your responses.
Yes, I am on windows. And, yes, I am trying to get PD to do this. So far it looks like the right tool for the
job,
but I just
downloaded
it today on the advice of a friend. Together we've cobbled together the
attached
.pd file.
If you start the Metro (clicking the [1]) the
atom
number box
gives me
the level from the line input (in this case a
microphone.) But I
can't
get the write to txt box to hook up properly,
or
to write to a file.
Adam D. Benalt Production Technology Director 212-664-1142 desk 646-306-4751 blackberry MSNBC
-----Original Message----- From: Pall Thayer
[mailto:palli@pallit.lhi.is]
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:49 PM To: Benalt, Adam D (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Writing -dB or VU level to
a TXT
File
Oh, I just noticed you're on Windows and
uh...
as far as I can tell
you're not even talking about PD.
On 3.4.2009, at 19:52, Benalt, Adam D (NBC
Universal, MSNBC) wrote:
Hey All -- I'd appreciate any advice that you
could
offer on this.
Ultimately, what I'd want to do is
just
access the Line-In audio
data
(I'm assuming it's somewhere in
the
Windows API?) and then write
that
data (maybe constantly updated to a TXT
file?)
so I can access the
TXT
file from another program.
Basically, how to get numerical data
(writing
into a txt file)
representing the levels on a sound card?
Please e-mail responses to:
adam.benalt@msnbc.com
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