randomize a text label?

[human fly]

hahaaa – that is the business ! you are quick, maaan 🙂

so there we have it: auto-gobbledegook generator.
time to rename the panel.

so: … (this one’s for later) is there a way to *exclude*
unwanted ranges? hehehe

(ie: unhelpful naming characters. i don’t really know if
this is ever going to help anyone come up with new names
for their patches – but i think the concept is valid for
various uses. i used to ‘load’ randomizers, in a very
simple way – for example for vcf envelope invert, where
you don’t want it to return ‘inverted’ too often, stuff
like that – a kind of ‘probability amount’ percentage.
– similar to the way they hold referendums these days ! )
(oops…)

[dnaldoog]

This panel seems to do it, though not fully tested and seems a bit clunky. The strange looking lookup table:

asciiOkay={
[65]=65,  --A
[66]=66,  --B
[67]=67,  --C
....

avoids having to loop through the table every time looking for characters to allow/include. There’s probably a much more elegant way of doing this.

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[human fly]

seems to work pretty well – although every few clicks
it doesn’t seem to change anything – ?
had a quick look at method – !

this is getting back to the array suggested by Proton, maybe.
if math.random was addressing an array for this, it would be more
direct?
ok, time for real world out there… back later.

[dnaldoog]

Yes I noticed that too if you click again too quickly. A delay of a second or two between clicks and it seems to work though.

I read this:

There is a know “issue” that the first call to math.random always returns the same value. You should do an extra call to math.random after you call math.randomseed and throw away the results.

So in this panel I call that function twice with different parameters:

randomSeeder =function(n)
-- random seeder
	--local t=os.time()
	--local c=os.clock()
	--math.randomseed(t*c)
	math.randomseed(os.clock()*n)
math.random(); math.random(); math.random() --warmup
end --function
---------------------------------------------------------

function createRandomName()
-- create a random preset name
   randomSeeder(100000)
   randomSeeder(10000)
	-- This variable stops index issues during panel bootup
	if panel:getRestoreState() == true or panel:getProgramState() == true then return end

-- --------------------------------------------------
	tabl_NewName={}
	strings={}
	for i= 1,10 do
	rnd=math.random(32,127) 
	tabl_NewName=rnd
console(String("random string = ["..rnd.."] = \""..myConvertToChar(rnd).."\""))
if asciiOkay[rnd] ~= nil then
table.insert(strings,myConvertToChar(rnd))
end
	end -- end loop
console(String("_________________________________\n"))
	DatasConcat = table.concat(tabl_NewName, " ")
	if #strings > 0 and strings ~= nil then
	stringsConcat=table.concat(strings)
	else
	stringsConcat="-------"
	end
	panel:getComponent("lcd_presetNameBis"):setPropertyString("uiLabelText",""..DatasConcat)
	panel:getComponent("lcd_presetNameTer"):setPropertyString("uiLabelText",stringsConcat)
strings=nil --clear previous table (Necessary???)

end --function
---------------------------------------------------------

If you only run the function …

   randomSeeder(100000)
   --randomSeeder(10000)

…once, the results seem sameish .

I also tried putting a sleep(500) function before math.randomseed(os.clock()) in that function randomSeeder() and that worked, but wondered if that was the best way to do it.

🙂

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[human fly]

having a few laughs with it anyway 🙂
already proving it can be useful.
it rarely seems to come up with the long names, 8+
characters – and you’ve done something to avoid
spaces in the middle, yet it can produce names of
shorter than 10 characters – have to look at it again
more closely.

evidently, one could spend a long time adding ‘rules’,
favouring ..?who knows: consonant and vowel combinations,
exclusions, lots of crazy stuff.

[human fly]

‘morning! 🙂

ok, so i’ve studied v.1/2/3 of what you did yesterday,
and tweaked it a bit – see panel below

it didn’t seem to need the new seeder, so it has that
original time*clock (found in Possemo’s Matrix1000),
and seem to trigger ok each time.

couple of questions:
why do you have this?
console(String("_________________________________\n"))

and

else stringsConcat="-------"

what does that do? it only has 7 ‘-‘s. is that an arbitrary
display? (must be if it’s nil etc. ? – which it won’t be
unless the method is triggered by other means, eg: popup menu,
which you can escape from?)

also, this (just an observation):
console(String("random string = ["..rnd.."] = \""..myConvertToChar(rnd).."\""))

i kept some notes as i got results doing ‘console’:

--console(string.rep('-',i))	-- prints incrementally
--console(String('-',i))	-- prints individually
--console(String(presetName..i))-- appends a number to variable name
--console(String("name"..i))	--creates a list of names with appended number

and noted that the ‘” “‘ can be omitted in those concat expressions:

--send it to preset name lcd
	panel:getComponent("lcd_presetNameBis"):setPropertyString("uiLabelText",""..DatasConcat)
	panel:getComponent("lcd_presetNameTer"):setPropertyString("uiLabelText",stringsConcat)

(couldn’t figure out how you were displaying lower case until i realised
you’d changed the font back to san-serif …Electronic doesn’t do lower case..)

niiiice. ready to use 🙂

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[dnaldoog]

human fly wrote:

it didn’t seem to need the new seeder, so it has that
original time*clock (found in Possemo’s Matrix1000),
and seem to trigger OK each time.

Yes it’s working for me now too – I was sure that code wasn’t working before 😮

The console(String("_________________________________\n")) is just used for debugging, to print a line at the end of a loop, so I can delineate each loop.

I just threw that else stringsConcat="-------" in arbitrarily to print something if there are no Upper/Lower case hits.

console(String("random string = ["..rnd.."] = "\""..myConvertToChar(rnd).."\"")) is to show you can use ” in your console printout if you escape it with a backslash (in case you don’t know this already).

That string.rep() function is interesting. Didn’t know about that.

[human fly]

had a feeling that String (etc.) was educational, thanks.
i have just the vaguest notion of escape slashes – probably a good time
to revise/revisit syntax pages. and go through your method a few times
more: naming and using variables as in that critical function at the end is
still nebulous and something i need to get into. i’ve been muddling along
without doing that. (mainly because the online tutorials need a bit of
translating, to be relevant to the Ctrlr newb’)

string.rep() > found whilst looking around for info.

seeing the way you construct methods, should i interpret this as
indicating that the order of a method doesn’t matter too much,
because everything gets loaded before anything is run? may seem
like a dumb question, but my instinct is to proceed in an order
that seems logical to me – evidently, if the critical function
comes in at the end, order doesn’t matter. – ? –

*however* your randomseeder() function appears before the
panel boot-up safeguard expression, which makes me think
it is being pre-seeded at boot-up. …

[dnaldoog]

human fly wrote:

that the order of a method doesn’t matter too much,
because everything gets loaded before anything is run

I think that is exactly correct;

• ref 1
• ref 2

[human fly]

“Lua always precompiles source code to an intermediate form before running it”

going to digest the rest of that more slowly 😉

i tried to make asciiOkay{} exist separately – but quickly ran into problems.
as i’ve seen arrays included separately- being picky, this would be a (very) minor
optimisation if you have to random more than one name. or i guess, if you wanted
to random from different arrays(?) with alternative options.

[dnaldoog]

human fly wrote:

i tried to make asciiOkay{} exist separately – but quickly ran into problems.
as i’ve seen arrays included separately- being picky, this would be a (very) minor
optimisation if you have to random more than one name. or i guess, if you wanted
to random from different arrays(?) with alternative options

???

[human fly]

lol.. sorry, bad post 🙂 i’ve been getting to grips with a
volca sample that arrived through the post, big distraction.

i put that array into a separate method, to be called at
startup, but couldn’t immediately figure out how to refer to it
from within the main method.

if i put asciiOkay{} in a separate method called..? asciiValid()
what would replace:
if asciiOkay[rnd] ~= nil then .. etc.
?

(completely unnecessary really – but could be useful)

[dnaldoog]

Can you give a code example of that?

[human fly]

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[human fly]

sorry! terrible explanation.
what i meant is: what it the asciiOkay{} was moved
outside the main ‘createRandomName()’ method into
its own method called at startup. how would createRandomName
need to be changed?

[dnaldoog]

Oh I see, well that table is already outside the method/function createRandomName() even though it’s in the same file.

If you put it into its own function, then you would have to call it through a parameter to the function if it is declared ‘local’, otherwise you could still access the table from anywhere in the program if not declared ‘local’ even though it’s contained within the function.

wrapTheTable=function(x)
local asciiOkay={
[65]=65,  --A
[66]="I am on route 66",  --B
[67]=67,  --C
[68]=68,  --D
[69]=69,  --E
[70]=70,  --F
[71]=71,  --G
}
return asciiOkay[x]
end

local var=wrapTheTable(66)
console(String(var))

will print “I am on route 66”

If you run console(String(asciiOkay[66])) you should get an error, because asciiOkay() is not global to the program.

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[human fly]

ok, i see, thanks. i’ll give that a go.

edit (later) – right, so i’ll abandon that idea:
objective achieved anyway. thanks for all the help.
useful little thing to have. originally wanted it
for that panel that stores fake presets, because
it was laborious putting in ‘names’ 🙂 so it’s
incorporated in that now, and in the proper panel
i’m supposed to be making.

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