keyboard control x position glyph/font

three basic examples of this

hi fsk that is really neat, thank you ; )

but

what i am attempting is to generate a completely new font...

so it is not using existing fonts at all but e.g. key input "a" will enable glyph made of lots of cubes all inside a trackball patch...

different key inputs enable different trackballs, iam ok up to here.. but i need a method to get them to be given a postion in space so that they come out just like the neat example you posted!

so i think i need a different approach ?

any ideas? please! thanks!!!

@fsk's composition is still a good place to start (nice use of the Feedback patch, by the way!).

Once you have a string representing the characters you want to render, feed that into an iterator. Iterate once for each character you'd like to draw, and then, inside the iterator, use a series of conditionals to enable the appropriate macro patch for the letter.

hi smokris and fsk

you are so helpful its great... thank you... i am relative newcomer to this and have uploaded the compostion (with three letters a,b,c) so you can see exactly what is going wrong...

if you can give some specific ideas about the conditionals i need to insert (and how to do it) that would be fantastic!

thanks

ampersandy

You have Structure Index Member connected directly to the Enable input of the three letter macros. There's a type conversion going on here --- a string is being converted into a boolean. Any non-null string is treated as a boolean True value, and since "a", "b", and "c" are all non-null strings, all three letters display in each position.

Use a String Compare patch for each macro's Enable input, to see if this particular iteration's character matches the character the macro is intended to display. Be careful about the output of String Compare --- it returns zero when there is an exact match, so you'll need to use a Conditional to invert the logic signal.

A cleaner alternative might be to modify your root-level Javascript to output an integer for each character, then, inside the Iterator, feed that integer value to a Boolean Demultiplexer with "Use Reset Value" set to True.

you are brilliant!!! but how do i go about making the conditional? or how do i modify the java script as you suggested... thanks ; )

brilliant... smokris & fsk

this seems to work... but only partially...
but the macros lose their audio interactivity! if you type the same character e.g. a,a,a, it all works fine! 
 but if you type different characters e.g. a,b,c they appear in the right order but do not respond to audio and also lose the trackball 3d rotation

any ideas?

thanks