The textfile, coll, pool, and iem_matrix objects are all good places to start looking.... I personally use [coll] for storing/retrieving file names by line number. Plus some kind of counter structure, with a [mod] equivalent to the number of symbols in your list, would allow looping of the line numbers.

[playlist] would be an option as well, if all your files are in the same directory.

d.

altern wrote:

hi

sometimes i get stucked on easy things like this while using PD, i guess because my head is too used to text programming...

I need to loop a list of symbols. I have an arbitrary length list like |hi hola kaixo moi(

and i need to be able to get the individual items to loop it.

The idea is that given a list with sound/video files names, to be able to jump from one to the next when the prev has ended, and maybe come back to the first when all are played.

i know this must be absolutely trivial but i just dont know where to start from. I havent done much work with lists in PD so far.

thanks

enrike

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Hallo, altern hat gesagt: // altern wrote:

sometimes i get stucked on easy things like this while using PD, i guess because my head is too used to text programming...

I need to loop a list of symbols. I have an arbitrary length list like |hi hola kaixo moi(

and i need to be able to get the individual items to loop it.

The idea is that given a list with sound/video files names, to be able to jump from one to the next when the prev has ended, and maybe come back to the first when all are played.

The [list]-abs collection has several objects that would do this, like [list-dripslow], or [list-seek]. These are abstractions so you could study how it's done. But you could also use [textfile] with [until]. For a ready-made abstraction, see attached "ezmenu". Use a counter in front of it to scroll back and forth.

Ciao

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