Looks like printks can update the % values to the string, but the
string itself is only updated once.
Oeyvind

2008/1/27, Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@ear.ie>:
> In fact they can be updated during performance as often as you like.
> Jonathan provided a working example in the manual which works fine,
> updating during performance. In order to get my example running I had to
> take out printks and use puts instead.
>
> instr 1
> k1 line 1, p3, p3
> Sname = "number";
> Sres sprintfk "%s:%2.1f\n", Sname, k1
> puts Sres, k1
> endin
>
> Just so we're clear this doesn't work(why?):
>
> instr 1
> k1 line 1, p3, p3
> Sname = "number";
> Sres sprintfk "%s:%2.1f\n", Sname, k1
> printks Sres, 0
> endin
>
> but this does:
>
> instr 1
>   kup line 0, p3, 100
>   kdown line 30, p3, 10
>   printks "kup = %f, kdown = %f\\n", 1, kup, kdown
> endin
>
> In one example printks works as expected, in the other example it
> doesn't. I'm afraid I'm still no nearer to understanding strings in Csound.
>
> Rory.
>
>
>
> victor wrote:
> > The manual is correct, they can be written at performance time,
> > but only once.
> >
> > Victor
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rory Walsh" <rorywalsh@ear.ie>
> > To: <csound@lists.bath.ac.uk>
> > Se
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