[sc-users] help sorting?

[kubick <ckubick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to collect and sort 2 randomly generated variables across a variable array of iterations, and I can't make it work!

Baically, I have somthing like

numIterations = (0..10).choose;

numIterations.do{|i|

specify a playing duration

specify a number of loops

specify a wait before the next iteraiton

}

here i want to specify a total wait by 

allWaits.sum.wait;

and then

(longestDur + (longestDur*numRepeats)).wait;

but I can't figure out how to sort the Durs and have the number of repeats variable go with it....!

faulty, half-baked code is below, this version is w/ a little class that stores durs and repeats,

previously I tried an array like [[dur, repeat],[dur, repeat]] but I couldn't figure out syntax..

thanks in advance!

ck

~catalogEntriesFullScreenRand = { var catalogSet,numEntries,fields,catalogFiles,allWaits,allFWs,allRepeats;

var allDurs;

if (randCatalogCounter>(allRandCatalogSoundSets.size-1),{randCatalogCounter=0});

catalogSet=allRandCatalogSoundSets[randCatalogCounter].value;

catalogSet.inPath.postln;

catalogSet.namesArray.postln;

numEntries=catalogSet.number.postln;

if (numEntries > totalFields, {numEntries=totalFields});

fields=(0..numEntries);

catalogFiles=(0..numEntries);

allWaits=(0..numEntries);

allDurs=(0..numEntries);

allFWs=(0..numEntries);

allFWs.do{|i|

allFWs[i]=FileWaitData.new

};

numEntries.do{ |i| var mult,dur,playLength,choice,vol,repeat,buf;

choice=rrand(catalogSet.start,(catalogSet.start+(catalogSet.number-1))).postln;

"CHOICE ABOVE".postln;

//if(choice<(chainStart+1), {choice=chainStart+1});

catalogFiles[i] =catalogSet.namesArray[(choice-catalogSet.start)].postln;

allFWs[i].dur = catalogSet.dursArray[i];

if (allFWs[i].dur  > 10,{allFWs[i].dur = 10});

if (allFWs[i].dur < 1,{allFWs[i].dur = 1});

playLength=(allFWs[i].dur - 0.5);

FTBViewLondon3.catalog(w,((i*40)+10),catalogFiles[i],1);

buf=((catalogSet.start)+i);

repeat=[1,2,3,4].choose;

("REPEAT"+repeat).postln;

allFWs[i].repeat = repeat;

fork{ var buffer=buf;

repeat.do{|i|

vol=rrand(0.2,1.0);

Synth(\guiPlayer, [\fxBuf, buffer, \chan, rrand(0,(totalChans-1)),\loop,0,\playLength, playLength,\fxVol,vol]).play;

rrand(3.0,12.0).wait;

//20.wait;

"LOOPING".postln;

};

};

allWaits[i] = rrand(0.3,1.5).wait;

};

"ALLWAITS".postln;

allWaits.sum.postln;

allWaits.wait;

allFWs.do{|i|

allDurs[i]=allFWs[i].dur

};

allDurs.sort({|a,b| a>b}).postln;

"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcatalogcounterXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX".postln;

randCatalogCounter=(randCatalogCounter+1).postln;

};