Hi everybody!!! I'm new to the forum ...I have a little newbie question rigth here since i'm new to pure data...but not programming it self!!!anyway here it is

my point is that i'm trying to have a toggle object with its inlet connected to two message box (the first one contain 0 and the second one contain 1)the oulet of my toggle is connected to a bang wich is connected to a simple print object.what I want it to do is this ...I want the bang message to be send only when 0 is received from the message box.but when I do this the message is sent either if 0 or 1 is pressed the toggle show an X when 1 is recieved but still print

have I done something wrong? or is there an other way to acheive the desired result?
I will be very greatfull if someone could help cause this answer would really help me for a bigger project i'm currently working on.

anyway thanks to read

-Félix-

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/0_or_nothing.pd

I think you need the [select] object.

[select 1] will output a bang if it receives 1 on its inlet.
[select 0] will output a bang if it receives 0 on the inlet.

You can construct muilti selects like

[select 0 2 4 6 8]

which will output a bang on outlets corresponding to the first few even numbers.

how big can you make these multi-[select]? I can't change the properties so 20 seems to be max (otherwise the outlets are overlapping)

I need to [select] numbers 1 up to 1271 to bang a |add receiverx( the x being the number. any suggestions?
now I have multiple select object linked to multiple message boxes.

A better way to do thatis to use [==]

A B
| /
[==]
|
[sel 1]
|
bang

will bang when A matches B. If B is the number you want to match and A is the variable then it should work as you want.

Or, if you meant "select numbers in the RANGE 0-127" then the one to use is [moses 127]

>I need to [select] numbers 1 up to 1271 to bang a |add receiverx( the x being the number. any suggestions?<

instead of 'receiverx' , use 'x-receiver'

[add $1-receiver(

one of the things which i used to do a LOT when i first started pd programming was 'connecting multiple select objects to multiple message boxes'.

in 90% of cases, with a good usage of [route] [pack] [select] [spigot] etc, you can avoid that.

whats the difference with the $? I only got a basic training, so this might be a stupid question.

maybe I'll explain what I'm trying to do a bit better.
I want to set a message box with wich I can reroute a number to a receiver. there are 1271 receivers called receiver1-...-receiver1271.
the message box should be:

|receiver1253 8(

the 1253 (receiver I want to sent to) coming from one number box, the 8 (number I want to reroute) from another.

there's not many numbers I want to reroute so I can do that with the select trick, but select 1 to 1271 is a pain in the ass.

I've been thinking of putting it in a list (msgfile) but that doesn't seem to send a message? I need an outlet that I can connect with a message box.

is there a way to add content to message box without it adding a space first? wouldn't fix the problem though.

in the new pd (apparently, i haven't tried it), $ values will substitute anywhere in a message box, so

[3 (
|
[three$1(

will output 'three3'

but in older pd (<0.40), $ values will only substitute when they are the start of a unit in the message.

so,

[67 99 10 (
|
[$1-bottles $2--cans $3hangovers(

will output: 67-bottles 99--cans 10hangovers

so...

if you really MUST name your receivers with the number coming after the receive name, then you need to use pd 0.40 + (which at the moment means you can't use hans' simple one click installers)

but if you can use receives named with the number before the symbol, then you just put the number inside the message box as a $ argument.

so..in your example, '[receiever1253 8('

if you're using pd 0.40 +, then just go:

[1253( [8 (
| |
[pack ]
|
[;
receiver$1 $2(

but if you're using old pd, then you will need either change the names of your receivers, or else use [makefilename]

[1253 (
|
[makefilename receiver%d(

yes! that pd 0.4 $-trick works!

this is great! thanks for the tip hardoff!