garageCube

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*UPDATE: first problems solved - work work!

Hi all,

Now that 2.5 is final (great job!), I'm off to start working on my modules again.

The module I'm currently working on reads a string out of a text file, the problem is that the string in the text file changes continuously (externally generated X-Y-Z coords) and I want to read the file continuously too or let's say at a given framerate (24fps) so I can use the externally generated coords in realtime (fe. using the coords to rotate a modul8 generated cube)

I've been trying to do it with while/for loops but as there's no end to the loop, modul8 crashes. It's probably something with a periodical event but I have no idea how to do it.

I'm using:

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//init file = open('textfile.txt', 'r') //opening the file txt = file.readline() //reading the first and only line txt = txt.split(';') //splitting the string as the coords are divided by ';' print txt //console print for checkup k = 'testvar' // I tried things like while k == 'testvar': //which it always is, so it'll continuously do the following file.close() file = open('textfile.txt', 'r') //opening the file txt = file.readline() //reading the first and only line txt = txt.split(';') //splitting the string as the coords are divided by ';' print txt //console print for checkup //but quite logically it crashes

Help seriously appreciated and thanks in advance

Thanks,
Kevin

[cerbellum]

Ok so I found it out myself

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count += elapsed if count >= 0.04 : #update each second count = 0.0 file.close() file = open('textfile.txt', 'r') txt = file.readline() txt = txt.split(';') x = txt[0] x = int(x) module.setValue ('accX',0,x) y = txt[1] y = int(y) module.setValue ('accY',0,y) z = txt[2] z = int(z) module.setValue ('accZ',0,z)

I'll keep you posted on the purpose of this thing!