Can someone please tell me how I can create the External SDK to develop a basic C++ External ? Yes I have gone through all the messages before, and yes I saw a link to the page (www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/maxcpp.htm) and yes I read about FLEXT but both are very complicated and have a huge overhead to what I want to do.
Does anybody have a very simple example with just a C++ Constructor because thats all I need ! no methods.. Just a Constructor/Destructor example. Or else does anybody have a tutorial as to how to get it done ?

By the way, I need this to link MAX to a multi-display Calibration API which in itself is a complicated program with a huge overhead and hence more overhead in linking C++ with MAX could not be tolerated…..

Really Looking for some help. Thanks everyone and happy Thanks Giving !

Prashanth Kannan
University Of Southern California

There are examples of how to create Max externals from ttblue both in
ttblue itself and in Jamoma.

http://electrotap.net:9004/ttblue

http://www.jamoma.org

Best,
Trond

prashanth wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> Can someone please tell me how I can create the External SDK to develop a basic C++ External ? Yes I have gone through all the messages before, and yes I saw a link to the page (www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/maxcpp.htm) and yes I read about FLEXT but both are very complicated and have a huge overhead to what I want to do.
> Does anybody have a very simple example with just a C++ Constructor because thats all I need ! no methods.. Just a Constructor/Destructor example. Or else does anybody have a tutorial as to how to get it done ?
>
> By the way, I need this to link MAX to a multi-display Calibration API which in itself is a complicated program with a huge overhead and hence more overhead in linking C++ with MAX could not be tolerated…..
>
> Really Looking for some help. Thanks everyone and happy Thanks Giving !
>
> Prashanth Kannan
> University Of Southern California
>

>
> By the way, I need this to link MAX to a multi-display Calibration API
> which in itself is a complicated program with a huge overhead and hence more
> overhead in linking C++ with MAX could not be tolerated…..
>
>
>
What makes you think the Graham’s template code will give you any overhead?
I don’t think it is any slower than using straight C. There is no bridge
code or inheritance or anything. Just a template.

The template looks complicated if you’re not used to it, but you don’t have
to understand it at all to use it. I can send you a stripped down version of
Graham’s template to do just max/obex instead of MSP, if you’re interested.

Best,
Thijs

> The template looks complicated if you’re not used to it, but you don’t have
> to understand it at all to use it. I can send you a stripped down version of
> Graham’s template to do just max/obex instead of MSP, if you’re interested.
>
> Best,
> Thijs
>
>
>
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>
> Yes,
> you are correct ! It LOOKS complicated to me. But when I tried compiling
> it in Visual Studio after setting the libraries properly it threw some error
> about some structure locally defined. I could’nt even debug it as I was not
> able to follow what was happening in the code !
> A stripped down version would indeed be very very helpful!Thank you! All I
> need is just a constructor and a destructor in C++ for MAX. No other
> functionality…
> Thank you very much !
>
>

I’ve stripped down one of my VS8 projects and cleaned up the code a bit
further as well. I hope this can help others as well, so I put it on my
server:

http://www.nano-soundworks.com/temp/cpp.max.example.zip

The only thing you need to do is alter the paths to the libaries and max sdk
so that the build project can find everything. That can’t be too hard;-)

The easiest way to convert it to your own project is to open the .vcproj and
.def files in a text editor and do some find/replace magic. Good luck.

Best,
Thijs