Peter McCulloch

If you're like me, you've probably found that function's default output is often not what you want. (single value, then list) Here's a tweak to the function.maxdefine file that will set it to output as a list by default.

Cycling74 folks: is there a correct/better way to do this? Is there an easier way of making default settings (outside of color)?

Here's my function.maxdefine file (from Cycling '74/default-definitions/)

            "attr" : "bgcolor",

            "class" : "function",

            "default" : [ 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Background Color",

            "attr" : "pointcolor",

            "default" : [ 0.32157, 0.32157, 0.32157, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Point Color",

            "attr" : "linecolor",

            "default" : [ 0.33333, 0.33333, 0.33333, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Line Color",

            "attr" : "sustaincolor",

            "default" : [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Sustain Color",

            "attr" : "textcolor",

            "default" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Text Color",

            "attr" : "bordercolor",

            "default" : [ 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0 ],

            "label" : "Border Color",

            "attr" : "outputmode",

            "label" : "Output mode"

If you're like me, you've probably found that function's default output is often not what you want.  (single value, then list)  Here's a tweak to the function.maxdefine file that will set it to output as a list by default.  

Cycling74 folks: is there a correct/better way to do this?  Is there an easier way of making default settings (outside of color)?

Here's my function.maxdefine file (from Cycling '74/default-definitions/)
{
	"definitions" : [
		{
			"attr" : "bgcolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Background Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
 		{
			"attr" : "pointcolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 0.32157, 0.32157, 0.32157, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Point Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
 		{
			"attr" : "linecolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 0.33333, 0.33333, 0.33333, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Line Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
 		{
			"attr" : "sustaincolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Sustain Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
 		{
			"attr" : "textcolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Text Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
 		{
			"attr" : "bordercolor",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : [ 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0 ],
			"label" : "Border Color",
			"style" : "rgba"
		},
		{
			"attr" : "outputmode",
			"class" : "function",
			"default" : 1,
			"label" : "Output mode"
		}
 ]
}


function-maxdefine-make-function-default-to-list-output

Nope. This is hard coded in the object. I wouldn't even count on modifying the function.maxdefine by end, this is not designed to work that way and this is an unsupported way of doing it. I would recommend creating 

Nope. This is hard coded in the object. I wouldn't even count on modifying the function.maxdefine by end, this is not designed to work that way and this is an unsupported way of doing it. I would recommend creating clippings instead.


function.maxdefine: Make function default to list output