Cycling 74 » Topic: Can you create your own externals in C++? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/feed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:26:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-63912 <![CDATA[Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-63912 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:22:39 +0000 StateAardvark I like the way C++ looks and I want to create my own externals for Max MSP. Can it be used for this purpose? If so, where can I learn how to convert it from code into something Max MSP can understand?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230475 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230475 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:38:33 +0000 MuShoo http://cycling74.com/products/sdk/

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230476 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230476 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:45:41 +0000 StateAardvark And C++ can work with this?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230477 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230477 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:01:25 +0000 nicolas danet Hello,

Yes (and AFAIK objective-C too, as they can be -almost- considered to be superset of C) ; You should have a look on the “collect” example in the SDK ; it shows how to use C++ and the STL in an external.

I never use Graham Wakefield’s templates ; and i do not no if it works for max 6 SDK ; but in case : http://code.google.com/p/maxcpp/

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230478 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230478 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:28:46 +0000 Siska Ádám Hi,

there’s actually a whole forum here dedicated exclusively to external development in C/C++/Obj-C:

http://cycling74.com/forums/forum.php?id=5

HTH,
Ádám

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230479 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230479 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:27:49 +0000 dnk777 Is it also possible to modify some of the existing object of max this way?
For example adding mouse-drag sensitivity setting to integer number box without writing it from scratch?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230480 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230480 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:19:30 +0000 nicolas danet Hello,

AFAIK modify a native object is not possible (allowed), and C++ do not make it possible, like magic.

;-)

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230481 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230481 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:15:09 +0000 Siska Ádám Well, if you can convince the C74 guys to release their original source code for you, then you could do it… But for that, you need to be a very good negotiator, I guess…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230482 <![CDATA[Re: Can you create your own externals in C++?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/can-you-create-your-own-externals-in-c/#post-230482 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:06:31 +0000 Peter Castine Some of the standard objects are given as example projects with the SDK, so you can take these and modify them as you wish. However, last time I looked numbox was not among them.

If you really want a customized number box, you could take a look at the Pd source code, which is open source. I daresay you could cobble together a good start from code in there.

I don’t think it’s likely that Cycling ’74 will publish the source code for the entire collection of factory externals, for a fair few reasons. But that’s just one guy’s opinion, salt to taste. What I have seen is that sometimes, given a very concrete question on the dev list, one of the developers may post a few lines of sample code to clarify how to do something specific. But nothing like the entire source for one external. Otherwise, what Siska said…

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