Re: [sc-users] detect / detectIndex

[James McCartney <asynth@xxxxxx>]

On May 3, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:

> well to ask the other way round: you want to know the next item from a 
> certain
> index on that has a certain property. For example say you have a 
> collection of synths that you want to insert a new synth in. Now you 
> don't know which of these are actually playing, so you want to find 
> the next one playing to add your new synth before that one. How would 
> you do that without duplicating the whole method code I posted?

Why aren't you keeping a list of playing ones? Could you use a Routine 
that wraps detect?
And anyway you can do this:

myCollection[offset..].detect {|item| ..blah.. };