Brad Garton

Have I said lately what an amazing thing it was that Cycling set it up to 

imbed other languages/environments in max-msp? I have a project where I 

needed to count about 50 bangs and route them out through a corresponding 

outlet. Quickly I discovered that [gate] has a fixed upper limit. So I 

started writing one of my insanely stupid convoluted patches with counters 

feeding into counters to channel the bangs correctly (yeah, I'm sure there 

is a native max-msp object somewhere that does this, but I always forget 

stuff). Then I thought "hey! I can write this in java!" and a few lines 

        if (++curcount > totouts) {

            error("BGcounter: exceeded total declared outputs");

            curcount = totouts;

Have I said lately what an amazing thing it was that Cycling set it up to 
imbed other languages/environments in max-msp?  I have a project where I 
needed to count about 50 bangs and route them out through a corresponding 
outlet.  Quickly I discovered that [gate] has a fixed upper limit.  So I 
started writing one of my insanely stupid convoluted patches with counters 
feeding into counters to channel the bangs correctly (yeah, I'm sure there 
is a native max-msp object somewhere that does this, but I always forget 
stuff).  Then I thought "hey!  I can write this in java!" and a few lines 
of code later:

 	public void bang() {
 		outletBang(curcount);
 		if (++curcount > totouts) {
 			error("BGcounter: exceeded total declared outputs");
 			curcount = totouts;
 		}
 	}

mxj how I love thee...