Cycling 74 » Topic: active state http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:13:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-50030 <![CDATA[active state]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-50030 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:21:21 +0000 georghajdu@mac.com Is there a JavaScript method capable of querying the active state of a parent patcher? Say, I have a bpatcher and want to know whether its patcher window is frontmost, but don’t want to create an active object in the parent patcher.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179595 <![CDATA[Re: active state]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179595 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:51:21 +0000 Hans Höglund No offense, but this sounds like poor encapsulation to me. Why not let the bpatcher support an active message and let users issue it from the parent patcher?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179596 <![CDATA[Re: active state]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179596 Tue, 04 May 2010 19:45:20 +0000 georghajdu@mac.com I had the Max for Idiots kind of person in mind. That’s why…

Actually, there was a time when there was no JavaScript at all, and my patches were all running just fine…

Georg

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179597 <![CDATA[Re: active state]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/active-state/#post-179597 Fri, 07 May 2010 01:44:49 +0000 Luke Hall Try checking the current filepath against the frontmost filepath as shown below.

lh

max.frontpatcher.filepath == this.patcher.filepath

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