Nicholas Hobson

Is there a way to start a patch with debugging already enabled?  I'm having some ordering issues that I can't figure out and would like to debug the patch during it's load/launch.  I've set a number of break-points, but it looks like I have to manually enable debugging after the patch loads.

Is there a way to start a patch with debugging already enabled?  I'm having some ordering issues that I can't figure out and would like to...

auto-enable-debugging-on-launch

I'm not sure about enabling debugging at startup, but what you can do is this:

Bonus feature: no need to restart your patcher every time you want to debug its startup.

debug switch has nothing to do with patch itself, but is set generally

Holding ctrl+shift does the trick. One note, if Max isn't already running, I have to hold ctrl+shift until the patch opens.  If I release the keys before the patch opens, the loads fire (in Windows).

I was very hopeful about the loadbang to a ";max traceenable" message, but it just seems to crash Max for me (in Windows).  Maybe I've done something wrong, see below (I've posted the long form because I couldn't open the compressed form).  If I remove the ";\r\nmax traceenable" text from the message box it will open, but with it present, Max crashes.

		"rect" : [ 59.0, 107.0, 640.0, 480.0 ],

					"patching_rect" : [ 141.0, 240.0, 32.0, 22.0 ],

					"patching_rect" : [ 141.0, 179.0, 293.0, 22.0 ],

					"text" : "The meaning of life, the universe and everything is $1"

					"patching_rect" : [ 276.0, 123.0, 97.0, 36.0 ],

					"patching_rect" : [ 141.0, 73.0, 77.0, 22.0 ],

					"patching_rect" : [ 276.0, 73.0, 58.0, 22.0 ],

Thank you for your information, very helpful

That was not meant to put into patch itself, but to switch debugging

before patch that has to be debugged loads.

Auto-Enable debugging on launch