I'm creating a system with Max that can manage many instances (sound, video, light and MIDI controllers) in order to be use for stage application, like theatre.

My system is almost done, everything works fine. It uses some files (coll and xml for pattrstorage) to store the cues at different levels, some are text cues (play ), some are presets.

Since I'm often using several machines (two different ones for video for example), I'm working in network, with updsend and udpreceive. The communication goes back and forth, since monitoring can be useful.

Here's my question : is there a way to load xml or text file in one machine and then send its content to the other machine through Max? On one machine, you can do this with colls that share the same content... the only way I see to do it on a network is to dump the file and transmit it.

I'd like this cause it would be a lot more simple for me if I could store the data for a specific show only in one folder, and then spread the content to the other machines.

I'm creating a system with Max that can manage many instances (sound, video, light and MIDI controllers) in order to be use for stage application, like theatre. 

My system is almost done, everything works fine. It uses some files (coll and xml for pattrstorage) to store the cues at different levels, some are text cues (play ), some are presets. 

Here's my question : is there a way to load xml or text file in one machine and then send its content to the other machine through Max? On one machine, you can do this with colls that share the same content... the only way I see to do it on a network is to dump the file and transmit it. 

communication-question

I realize that in fact, the problem is with the pattrstorage. It's almost easy to dump the data out of a coll.

It's quite another thing to do that with a pattrstorage...

> Here's my question : is there a way to load xml or text file in one 

> machine and then send its content to the other machine through Max? 

> On one machine, you can do this with colls that share the same 

> content... the only way I see to do it on a network is to dump the 

The easiest way (although probably not the most robust) would be a 

> Here's my question : is there a way to load xml or text file in one  
> machine and then send its content to the other machine through Max?  
> On one machine, you can do this with colls that share the same  
> content... the only way I see to do it on a network is to dump the  
> file and transmit it.

The easiest way (although probably not the most robust) would be a  
shared network volume.

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There just seems to be a problem with adresses when going from mac to PC or from PC to Mac... I tried it, but it didn't work well. I don't feel it's the most reliable way to do. Maybe there's something I did wrong...

I also tried to read the xml file through a Text object, and then dump each line through the network (keeping the formatting of the xml by adding some tab and cr commands) into another Text object, and then saving it with a .xml extension. That way, both Text's content (the opened version of the .xml and the one "reconstructed" after networking) look exactly the same, but the pattrstorage can't open the one saved with Text (error reading file at byte offset 14 / XML declaration not well-formed). You can try the example is join to this post.

There just seems to be a problem with adresses when going from mac to PC or from PC to Mac... I tried it, but it didn't work well. I don't feel it's the most reliable way to do. Maybe there's something I did wrong... 

Does jit.uldl work to send your xml files from comp to comp? You could specify where the file will go, as well as how to grab it into the pattrstorage on the destination computer.

Communication question...