Read Textfiles With Strings

[rdg]

Hello,

sibarrick pointed me at CHOPS to read textfiles containing strings.

But there is still something missing:

I can read *.chan files containing numbers and get them into a fontSOP with

`chopf ("/ch/ch1/file1/chan0", $F)`

If the file contains text like "abc" this doesn't work.

I tried chopstr, too.

The phonemeCHOP looked promising. But I coudn't get the text into my fontSOP.

I also think about numbered textfiles with only one string - maybe I could then

`system("cat myfile" + $F + ".txt")` in the text field of the fontSOP?

But where does system start in a win32 environment looking for files?

Can win32 cat? (No, I dont want to install linux.)

A chls told me that text isn't a channel of the fontSOP, so I cannot use chread?

I guess I need some VEX/VOP(?) network reading the textfile and a much more knowledge about this. I will keep trying.

I want to change the text over time based on a textfile.

Maybe someone could offer me another hint?

thank you.

Georg

[sibarrick]

You should be able to read text straight into the font sop via python

like this

`system("python c:/ubin/datetime.py")`

this is my own python script for returning the date and time

[rdg]

:notworthy:

Good things come to those who wait?

A miss is as good as a mile.

In my case [path_to_python]python.exe caused an 16-bit exception and [path_to_python]python2.4 .exe works ...

I am soo happy.

Georg

[edward]

CHOPs is strictly floating point data.

[rdg]

ok. after a conversation with digitallsane at the irc I noticed that the problem was caused by:

I didn't have a pointer to my python in my environment setting.

Georg