I’ve just started to learn Javascript, and have a specific problem to work on. This is the jist of it is here – http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=39655

Below is my code, which all works apart from the query function at the bottom which crashes Max.

Any ideas?


// automatically updates js object in max environment
autowatch = 1;

//define number of inlets and outlets
inlets = 1;
outlets = 1;

//define variables
var start_time = new Array();
var end_time = new Array();
var mouse_pos = 0;

// get length of coll to set array length
function set_length(coll_length)
{
start_time.length = coll_length;
end_time.length = coll_length;
post(start_time.length, "is the length of the start_time array n");
}

// populate the array, x is index, y is value
function populate(index,start,end)

{
start_time[index] = start;
end_time[index] = end;
post(start_time[index], end_time[index], "n");

}

// check things are working by sending an integer which outputs the data at the index specified.
function msg_int(x)
{
post("The start time at index "+ x + " is equal to " + start_time[x], "n");

}

// query

function query(mouse_x)
{

var current_segment = 1;

while (current_segment < = start_time.length)

{

if (mouse_x >= start_time[current_segment] && mouse_x < = end_time[current_segment])

{
outlet(0, current_segment);
}

else

{
outlet(0, -1);
}

}
}

That makes complete sense, thanks. I needed to increment the loop AND also use ‘return 0′ when the if statement was true.

The following appears to work.


function query(mouse_x)
{

var current_segment = 1;

while (current_segment < = start_time.length)

{

if (mouse_x >= start_time[current_segment] && mouse_x < = end_time[current_segment])

{
outlet(0, current_segment);
return 0;
}

else

{

outlet(0, -1);
current_segment ++;
}

}
}