homerjsim

The documentation says “Perhaps the most powerful thing about a Maxobj is that you can send any message to a Maxobj that you can send to a Max object in Max as if you were invoking a method on the object in Javascript.”

var coll_out_in_max = this.patcher.getnamed("coll_scripting_name");

OK, I can populate it from JS, this works as expected ('a' is an array beginning with an int):

Why doesn't this work in the now-populated "coll_out_in_max" Coll Maxobj?

colldump = coll_out_in_max.message("dump");

neither work - I get some UID instead - jsobject 54353535

Is there something I'm missing? Also - bigger question - what are the pros/cons of choosing Maxobj or LiveAPI over the Max editor beyond the obvious one related to personal preference (I should say my project is already using javascript and requires zero user input into Live - the set will be pre-populated with clips, and what limited UI there will be will sit in an amxd' presentation window (in other words while Live will have to react to Max, Max will not have to react to Live)

I have a Maxobj, it happens to be a Coll
var coll_out_in_max = this.patcher.getnamed("coll_scripting_name");

OK, I can populate it from JS, this works as expected ('a' is an array beginning with an int):
coll_out_in_max.message(a);

colldump = coll_out_in_max.message("dump");
or this
colldump = coll_out_in_max.dump();

Maxobj question (relatively noob-esque)