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procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

vade — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:46:20 +0000

Hello

say I have an object in a patcher name “thing”. I do know necessarily know how many inlets and outlets “thing” has because “thing” is a patcher module loaded off of disk and could be CRAZY and have like, lots and lots of inlets and outlets.

I would like to query “thing” to know how many inlets and outlets “thing” has.

How does one do that?

var thing=this.patcher.getnamed(“thing”);

what method to thing can I now call to return the number of inlets and outlets?

I checked the docs, so forgive me if ive missed this one.

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

Jeremy Bernstein — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:04:50 +0000

You can’t do this in Max 4.

Am 12.10.2007 um 07:46 schrieb vade:

>
> Hello
>
> say I have an object in a patcher name “thing”. I do know
> necessarily know how many inlets and outlets “thing” has because
> “thing” is a patcher module loaded off of disk and could be CRAZY
> and have like, lots and lots of inlets and outlets.
>
> I would like to query “thing” to know how many inlets and outlets
> “thing” has.
>
> How does one do that?
>
> var thing=this.patcher.getnamed(“thing”);
>
> what method to thing can I now call to return the number of inlets
> and outlets?
>
> I checked the docs, so forgive me if ive missed this one.

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

vade — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:32:57 +0000

What!?!?!

Seriously !?!?!

Inlets and Outlets make max go! How can javascript not know about them!

Does javascript in Max 5 know about them? if not, PLEASE !

Oh man, really? Id never in a thousand years think that would be the case.

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

Jeremy Bernstein — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:35:42 +0000

Seriously. Sorry.

Am 12.10.2007 um 16:32 schrieb vade:

> Seriously !?!?!

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

Emmanuel Jourdan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:30:36 +0000

On 12 oct. 07, at 23:32, vade wrote:

> Inlets and Outlets make max go! How can javascript not know about
> them!

It’s not a that simple problem. For some object, that’s *easy*
because it doesn’t change but for some objects it changes on
instantiation. The worst example is JS, because you have to execute
the global code of the javascript file before you can know what’s the
number of inlet/outlet.

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

vade — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:08:26 +0000

But the js can query itself with the jsthis object and return the number of inlets/outlets.

I only need to poll objects. Jeremy gave me a possible workaround over IM, which I will try to get working and post.

Thanks,

Re: procedurally counting named objects inlets and outlets

Peter Nyboer — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:00:25 +0000

not really a workaround, but a design consideration, which may or may not be useful…instead of lots of inlets/outlets in abstractions/patcher, can you rely on route and label (an Lobject from peter elsea)?

#P window setfont “Sans Serif” 9.;
#P number 272 41 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 234 44 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 197 47 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 158 52 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 119 57 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 80 62 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 41 67 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 43 93 183 196617 label all your inlets are belong to them;
#N vpatcher 20 74 620 474;
#P inlet 71 48 15 0;
#P window setfont “Sans Serif” 9.;
#P number 311 119 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 272 119 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 234 119 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 192 120 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 150 121 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 108 122 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P number 66 123 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 69 71 186 196617 route all your inlets are belong to them;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P connect 8 0 0 0;
#P connect 0 1 2 0;
#P connect 0 2 3 0;
#P connect 0 3 4 0;
#P connect 0 4 5 0;
#P connect 0 5 6 0;
#P connect 0 6 7 0;
#P pop;
#P newobj 43 129 33 196617 p sub;
#P connect 1 0 0 0;
#P connect 8 0 1 6;
#P connect 7 0 1 5;
#P connect 6 0 1 4;
#P connect 5 0 1 3;
#P connect 4 0 1 2;
#P connect 3 0 1 1;
#P connect 2 0 1 0;
#P window clipboard copycount 9;