Thomas Resch

somehow my object doesn't get notified on patcher modifications(resizing the patcher, switching to presentation view). it's a dsp-gui object, i tried a lot of variations of getting the patcher and registering it to my object. it has a hidden second gui object similar to the scripto example, and there the notifcation works just fine. any ideas?

    if (!(d=object_dictionaryarg(argc,argv)))

    x = (myobject *)object_alloc(s_note_class);

            | JBOX_DRAWFIRSTIN

    jbox_new((t_jbox *)x, boxflags, argc, argv);

    x->p_obj.z_box.b_firstin = (void *)x;

mypatcher = jbox_get_patcher((t_object *)x);

object_attach_byptr_register(x, x, CLASS_BOX);

    object_attach_byptr_register(x, mypatcher, CLASS_NOBOX);

    object_attach_byptr(x, x->arrangeView);

hi,
somehow my object doesn't get notified on patcher modifications(resizing the patcher, switching to presentation view). it's a dsp-gui object, i tried a lot of variations of getting the patcher and registering it to my object. it has a hidden second gui object similar to the scripto example, and there the notifcation works just fine. any ideas?

	myobject *x = NULL;
 	t_dictionary *d=NULL;
	long boxflags;

	if (!(d=object_dictionaryarg(argc,argv)))
		return NULL;

	x = (myobject *)object_alloc(s_note_class);
	boxflags = 0
			| JBOX_DRAWFIRSTIN
			| JBOX_NODRAWBOX
	  ...
          ...

	jbox_new((t_jbox *)x, boxflags, argc, argv);
	x->p_obj.z_box.b_firstin = (void *)x;
	dsp_setupjbox((t_pxjbox *)x,2);

        mypatcher = jbox_get_patcher((t_object *)x);

        object_attach_byptr_register(x, x, CLASS_BOX);
	object_attach_byptr_register(x, mypatcher, CLASS_NOBOX);
	object_attach_byptr(x, x->arrangeView);
    jbox_ready((t_jbox *)x);


dsp-gui-object-getting-notified-on-patcher-modifications

this is fairly simple but not as simple as it seems.

1 - Generally the patcherview is not immediately available to you when the object is created because a patcher is being read from disk. So you cannot attach to the patcherview in the new_method without using proper deferring functions.

2 - In UI objects (and ONLY in UI objects) our life is made a little bit easier by the existence of two optional methods:

So add these two methods to your class like this:

class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobj_patcherview_vis, "patcherview_vis", A_CANT, 0);
class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobj_patcherview_invis, "patcherview_invis", A_CANT, 0);

void yourobj_patcherview_vis(t_yourobj *x, t_object *patcherview)
{
    object_attach_byptr(x, x->arrangeView);
}

void yourobj_patcherview_invis(t_yourobj *x, t_object *patcherview)
{
    object_detach_byptr(x, x->arrangeView);
    x->arrangeView = NULL;
}

Notice that because the current patcherview is passed as an argument to the two methods, you might not need to keep a pointer in your data structure, but that's really up to your needs...

Let me know if you manage to get it working...

3 - attach to the patcherview in patcherview_vis() and detach in patcherview_invis():

BTW, I am not 100% sure if you need to register the patcherview or just attach to it.

What makes you say that you don't have to register it ?

BTW, I am not 100% sure if you need to register the patcherview or just attach to it.
What makes you say that you don't have to register it ?

Hi Luigi,
thanks very much..
works fine,
cheers,
tom


dsp-gui object getting notified on patcher modifications