nick rothwell | project cassiel

The patcher-loading function lowload(), as per the docs, appears not 

to exist in any headers; but there's an intload() which isn't 

documented, but which has an extra argument. (intload() seems to call 

lowload(), if the stack traces littering the online forum are 

accurate.) Have my docs and headers drifted out of sync?

(More generally, I'm a little confused about the state of the SDK. 

The most recent document I can find is "WritingExternal34.pdf", but 

I'm using something called "MaxMSP UB SDK" dated April 2006.)

The patcher-loading function lowload(), as per the docs, appears not  
to exist in any headers; but there's an intload() which isn't  
documented, but which has an extra argument. (intload() seems to call  
lowload(), if the stack traces littering the online forum are  
accurate.) Have my docs and headers drifted out of sync?

(More generally, I'm a little confused about the state of the SDK.  
The most recent document I can find is "WritingExternal34.pdf", but  
I'm using something called "MaxMSP UB SDK" dated April 2006.)

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lowload-vs-intload

On 31 Aug 2007, at 19:09, Emmanuel Jourdan wrote:

https://cycling74.com/download/MaxMSP-4.5.5-MacSDK.dmg

The document in that is Revision 12 (August 2005). The document I 

have is Revision 12 (December 2003). I am accordingly confused about 

the meaning of the word "revision." Neither document mentions intload().

However, intload() seems to do the job - it loads a patcher (and 

substitutes #-arguments) but the patcher is not presented in a window 

> Then MaxMSP UB SDK explain the rest of the new universal binary stuff.

There's no documentation in the UB SDK itself, apart from a pointer 

to the C'74 wiki, which contains the (somewhat essential) articles by 

David Z. about Xcode, Frameworks and other Apple magic.

As an aside, once you get used to it, developing and debugging Max 

externals using Xcode is not too painful. I just keep trying to drive 

> https://cycling74.com/download/MaxMSP-4.5.5-MacSDK.dmg

The document in that is Revision 12 (August 2005). The document I  
have is Revision 12 (December 2003). I am accordingly confused about  
the meaning of the word "revision." Neither document mentions intload().

However, intload() seems to do the job - it loads a patcher (and  
substitutes #-arguments) but the patcher is not presented in a window  
(which is fine - this is what I want).

There's no documentation in the UB SDK itself, apart from a pointer  
to the C'74 wiki, which contains the (somewhat essential) articles by  
David Z. about Xcode, Frameworks and other Apple magic.

As an aside, once you get used to it, developing and debugging Max  
externals using Xcode is not too painful. I just keep trying to drive  
it as if it were Eclipse...

Quote: nick rothwell / cassiel wrote on Fri, 31 August 2007 20:27

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> As an aside, once you get used to it, developing and debugging Max 

> externals using Xcode is not too painful. I just keep trying to drive 

That's right, I didn't find eclipse's features like code collapsing, code completion and refactoring in xcode. Could there be somewhere I forgot to look?

Quote: nick rothwell / cassiel wrote on Fri, 31 August 2007 20:27
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> As an aside, once you get used to it, developing and debugging Max  
> externals using Xcode is not too painful. I just keep trying to drive  
> it as if it were Eclipse...

lowload() vs. intload()