homerjsim

Another noobie question. I'm just starting out and doing some very small patches to see how things work, and with this tiny patch (that just uses the parent patcher Maxobj to send a Text object a read message), if I change the scripting name on the text and in the JS and it works, as soon as I save the maxpat and reload it, "this.patcher.getnamed" is broken. If I change the scripting name to something difgferent it works again until I save reload. If it's a bug I could workaround by using the "messnamed" function and a receive object on the max side, but if it's pilot error I'd like to know what I have wrong/don't understand...

var maxtext = this.patcher.getnamed ("bababooey");

        maxtext.message("read"); //you could add filename here

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Another noobie question. I'm just starting out and doing some very small patches to see how things work, and with this tiny patch (that just uses the parent patcher Maxobj to send a Text object a read message), if I change the scripting name on the text and in the JS and it works, as soon as I save the maxpat and reload it, "this.patcher.getnamed" is broken.  If I change the scripting name to something difgferent it works again until I save reload.  If it's a bug I could workaround by using the "messnamed" function and a receive object on the max side, but if it's pilot error I'd like to know what I have wrong/don't understand...

function readfile()  {
	if(maxtext == null) {
		post("text not foundn");
	} else {
		maxtext.message("read");  //you could add filename here
	}
}

JS/Maxobj scripting name persistence bug?