Re: [sc-users] Buffer control in TGrains

[Ricardo Guerreiro <rg@xxxxxxx>]

Perfect. I think i finally understood the importance of this advice:

"Looking in class definitions (select any class and press Cmd-j to  
open its class definition file) can help you to figure out what  
undocumented methods do."

I hope i'll soon start to send You less shameful questions...

Thanks

RG

Em 2005/09/24, às 18:35, James Harkins escreveu:

> On Sep 24, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Ricardo Guerreiro wrote:
>
>
> > I was already following on that way. In this case, i'm driving the  
> > centerPos control rate bus with a "line" object in Max/Msp. How  
> > can I read the Buffer dur (in order to send it to Max)?
> > Something like (this doesn't work):
> >
> > v = BufDur.kr(bufnum);
> > v.value.postIn;
>
> There is a client vs server help file which, if I recall correctly,  
> explains why you can't use server-side UGens on the client.  
> Anything with .ar, .kr or .ir is calculated in the server and is  
> not directly available on the client.
>
> The buffer object has a method to get its vital statistics from the  
> server: if b is a Buffer,
>
> b.updateInfo;
>
> It takes a fraction of a second for the information to come back.  
> Then you can do b.numFrames / b.sampleRate to get the duration in  
> seconds.
>
> If you read a file into the buffer using Buffer.read, the info  
> should already be updated.
>
> hjh
>
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