Greetings All,
I am trying to write a JavaScript program using pdjs that allows me to send messages with commas to a synth. Something like this:

| 60, 64, 67 (
|

I have a string synthesizer and when I send these three MIDI values I get a C chord. This works as expected. I have tried to emulate this in many different ways in a pdjs JavaScript file. Please see attached. If I run the first line where I send the three values one after another things work as expected. I have tried a number of different ways to create a message with commas as above, with no luck. I am probably missing something easy and would appreciate any pointers in the right direction.

inlets = 1;
outlets = 1;

function bang() {
  // if send individually works fine...
  messnamed("notes", 60); messnamed("notes", 64); messnamed("notes", 67); //<-works!

  // none of these work
  messnamed("notes", ["60", "64", "67"]);   //<-no method for '60'
  messnamed("notes", [60, 64, 67]);         //<-plays only first note
  messnamed("notes", "60, 64, 67");         //<-no method for '60, 64, 67'
  messnamed("notes", 60, 64, 67);           //<-plays only first note
  messnamed("notes", "60", "64", "67");     //<-no method for '60'
  messnamed("notes", "60, "addcomma", 64", "addcomma", "67"); //<-won't compile
  messnamed("notes", ["list", 60, 64, 67]); //<-plays only first note
  messnamed("notes", ["list", 60, "list", 64, "list", 67]); //<-plays only first note
  messnamed("notes", ["list", "60", "64", "67"]); //<-does nothing
}

Thanks in advance for your help.!

@pman messnamed("notes", 60,64,67);
Try removing the white-space after the note separator commas.
I think for a string in js it should be white-space "or" comma as a string separator, but I have never programmed in js. Maybe it needs to be defined?
Seems to be the only thing you haven't tried.
David

@whale-av said:

@pman messnamed("notes", 60,64,67);
Try removing the white-space after the note separator commas.

I'm pretty sure that whitespace is syntactically insignificant in that location. Derivatives of C generally ignore all whitespace except in string literals.

Unfortunately I have no idea about the original question.

hjh

Hi,
Have you try to remove spaces in the string ?

messnamed("notes", "60,64,67");

Hi,

Thank you for the ideas. I tried both:

messnamed("notes",60,64,67) //<- it played only the first note
and
messnamed("notes", "60,64,67") //<- gatom: no method for '60,64,67'

So, no luck so far...

Don't know anythig about Javascript, but since some version play the first note only, why don't you try to split the list in Pd land. for example, the last version where you get gatom: no method for '60,64,67' you can send the output to a [list fromsymbol] and split the list to your liking. Just a thought.