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Looking deeply into [umenu]'s help file, especially the [p autopopulate] subpatch, I discovered a nice exemple:

There, you can see a [playbar] object connected to an [sfplay~] object, and it does work! Of course, this feature is not documented in playbar.maxhelp (where you can still read "Currently, playbar can only be used to control movies. It can also serve as a progress indicator while a movie is playing."), nor are the "pos" and "toggleplay" messages described in [sfplay~] help file and references docs.

playbara-do-work-with-sfplaya±

 messages are not documented on purpose, it's just the way 

Thanks for pointing this out. The pos and toggleplay messages are not documented on purpose, it's just the way playbar initiates a special connection with sfplay~.


I think the pos message is quite useful on its own for playing from relative offsets.

It saves you the additional [sfinfo~] to calculate the offset from the audiofile-length, if you f.e. want to start playing from the middle.

or is there something more "special" to it?

I think the pos message is quite useful on its own for playing from relative offsets.
It saves you the additional [sfinfo~] to calculate the offset from the audiofile-length, if you f.e. want to start playing from the middle.

or is there something more "special" to it?


it's a little bit more specific. Using seek is what you want to do.


https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=174518&rid=2634&S=781b454bee53965dc7baa8a5b13bb3f2&srch=playbar#msg_174518

You're right mz, I didn't notice that. But now there is hope to find this feature in Max' future documentation.

mzed wrote on Mon, 26 October 2009 03:33I think this has come up before:

You're right mz, I didn't notice that. But now there is hope to find this feature in Max' future documentation.


Not really... use seek if you want to scrub. The pos message will remain undocumented because it's only for internal communication. It might even disappear some day, or not, so don't rely on it.

[playbar]Â do work with [sfplay~Ä±] !!