Tom Haig

hey, just wondering if anyobe out there knows much about making a max patch into a standalone application?

I'm in the process of making my patch, but I ultimately want to distribute it as a standalone application.

I've just read a the section on it in the max topics manual and I'm unsure of a few things...

1) is it possible to use scripting to change the various menus and options in the top menu bar?

2) I tried to edit the splash page for the standalone. I put the file name in, but to no avail. It doesn't mention it much in the reference manual about scripting, but do I put spaces after appsplash. Would I include 'Macintosh HD' in the search path?

3) At the moment my patch uses a [send] object to communicate with another patch... but I can't seem to get it to work with the patches written as standalones.

4) I couldn't manage to get the boxcolor message to work, and I didn't really understand the section about it in the manual. I literally made a message box in my patch reading [max boxcolor (5 arguments] connected to nothing... should this be working?

I know its quite a big thing to step into but I'd really like to see my patch come to fruition as a standalone. If anyone can help in any of the above, that'd be fantastic.

If anyone's interested, a bit of info is available at www.contouraudio.com

hey, just wondering if anyobe out there knows much about making a max patch into a standalone application?
I'm in the process of making my patch, but I ultimately want to distribute it as a standalone application.
I've just read a the section on it in the max topics manual and I'm unsure of a few things...
1) is it possible to use scripting to change the various menus and options in the top menu bar?

2) I tried to edit the splash page for the standalone.  I put the file name in, but to no avail.  It doesn't mention it much in the reference manual about scripting, but do I put spaces after appsplash.  Would I include 'Macintosh HD' in the search path?

4) I couldn't manage to get the boxcolor message to work, and I didn't really understand the section about it in the manual.  I literally made a message box in my patch reading [max boxcolor (5 arguments] connected to nothing... should this be working?

I know its quite a big thing to step into but I'd really like to see my patch come to fruition as a standalone.  If anyone can help in any of the above, that'd be fantastic.

If anyone's interested, a bit of info is available at www.contouraudio.com
thank you!


creating-standalones

On 24 Oct 2006, at 04:03, register wrote:

> 3) At the moment my patch uses a [send] object to communicate with 

> another patch... but I can't seem to get it to work with the 

To answer this one in particular: [send]/[receive] work within Max 

(or a particular Max runtime, which is what each standalone uses) but 

not between one standalone/runtime and another; for that, you'll need 

to use something like OSC (or be really retro and use inter-app MIDI).

nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- 

> 3) At the moment my patch uses a [send] object to communicate with  
> another patch... but I can't seem to get it to work with the  
> patches written as standalones.

To answer this one in particular: [send]/[receive] work within Max  
(or a particular Max runtime, which is what each standalone uses) but  
not between one standalone/runtime and another; for that, you'll need  
to use something like OSC (or be really retro and use inter-app MIDI).

   nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http:// 
www.cassiel.com


thanks for the help with the send / recieve problem... turns out it makes just as good sense to put it all in one patch / app.

I'm just having problems with a coulpe more things:

I can't get the standalone builder to find my custom splash page... I've tried using appsplash but to no avail so far. I was wondering if someone could please show me an example of what the whole command should look like? I'm unsure if I should include "quotation marks" and 'Macintosh HD' in there too... only I think with a previous problem I had with filepaths, it worked not to include 'macintosh HD' and I assumed it may be due to the space between 'macintosh' and 'HD'.

The other thing that's busting my brain is using a max message to control 'colorbox'. I can't really understand how this feature works. Again.. if someone could please help provide an example, I'd be very grateful.

hey,
thanks for the help with the send / recieve problem... turns out it makes just as good sense to put it all in one patch / app.

I'm just having problems with a coulpe more things:
I can't get the standalone builder to find my custom splash page... I've tried using appsplash  but to no avail so far.  I was wondering if someone could please show me an example of what the whole command should look like? I'm unsure if I should include "quotation marks" and 'Macintosh HD' in there too... only I think with a previous problem I had with filepaths, it worked not to include 'macintosh HD' and I assumed it may be due to the space between 'macintosh' and 'HD'.
The other thing that's busting my brain is using a max message to control 'colorbox'.  I can't really understand how this feature works.  Again.. if someone could please help provide an example, I'd be very grateful.
thanks very much
tom


creating standalones