newobject() arguments for bpatcher

Hi,

As my first foray into JavaScript within Max, I’m trying to do automate the creation of a series of bpatchers, similar to the example in the “JavaScript Scripting” tutorial.

I have to admit, I’m having some trouble figuring out the order of arguments for newobject() from looking at the documentation. First I tried this:

numbpatchers = a;
for(k=0;k {
thebpatchers[k] = this.patcher.newobject(“bpatcher”, “FloatingButtons.maxpat”, k*100, 0, (k+1)*100, this.patcher.wind.size[1]);
}

Then this:

numbpatchers = a;
for(k=0;k {
thebpatchers[k] = this.patcher.newdefault(0, 0, “bpatcher”);
thebpatchers[k].replace(“FloatingButtons.maxpat”);
thebpatchers[k].rect(k*100, 0, (k+1)*100, this.patcher.wind.size[1]);
}

But neither seem to work as desired. All I want to do is set the rectangle (actually in presentation, but I’m just trying to get it running at this point) and file. I’m sure this is very simple, I just can’t seem to find many examples of scripts that create new objects other than the one in the tutorial that uses newdefault() and doesn’t set any parameters.

Thanks,
Zach