Chris Muir

I've grown frustrated with a Max weakness involving sending using the 

"; DestName $1" method. Without extra work, it is only a "send" 

object replacement for ints and floats. All other types need to be 

prefixed with symbol. This is sort of messy.

I've stumbled across a solution that is simpler from some points of 

view. By using $2 instead of $1, and prepending a dummy argument to 

the thing that you want to send, all types get sent without doing 

anything different to different types of data. This is a little ugly, 

too, but has the advantage being able to treat different data types 

the same. I haven't found any documentation that says this should 

I wish that send worked like receive in the way that you change arguments.

Chris Muir | "There are many futures and only one status quo.

cbm@well.com | This is why conservatives mostly agree,

 | and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno

I've grown frustrated with a Max weakness involving sending using the 
"; DestName $1" method. Without extra work, it is only a "send" 
object replacement for ints and floats. All other types need to be 
prefixed with symbol. This is sort of messy.

I've stumbled across a solution that is simpler from some points of 
view. By using $2 instead of $1, and prepending a dummy argument to 
the thing that you want to send, all types get sent without doing 
anything different to different types of data. This is a little ugly, 
too, but has the advantage being able to treat different data types 
the same. I haven't found any documentation that says this should 
work, but it seems to work fine.

-- 
Chris Muir           | "There are many futures and only one status quo.
cbm@well.com         |  This is why conservatives mostly agree,
http://www.xfade.com |  and radicals always argue." - Brian Eno


send-via-1-message-undocumented-behavior

At 8:42 AM +0200 4/7/06, Trond Lossius wrote:

I hadn't, actually. Very useful. I wonder what version of Max it appeared in?

At 8:42 AM +0200 4/7/06, Trond Lossius wrote:
>Have you checked out "forward"?

I believe it has been around for quite a while, but it seems to 

attract less attention than other objects.

I believe it has been around for quite a while, but it seems to  
attract less attention than other objects.

On 7-Apr-2006, at 9:23, Chris Muir wrote:

> I hadn't, actually. Very useful. I wonder what version of Max it 

Probably the first version Gregory wrote the documentation for.-

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> I hadn't, actually. Very useful. I wonder what version of Max it  
> appeared in?

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> I hadn't, actually. Very useful. I wonder what version of Max it appeared in?

also check pattrforward it arrived just recently and it will make you 

get rid of a lot of receives by sending the data directly to a named 

object... even more usefull. (Thanks a lot Jeremy! and who ever 

Chris Muir wrote:
>>Have you checked out "forward"?
>
> I hadn't, actually. Very useful. I wonder what version of Max it appeared in?

also check pattrforward it arrived just recently and it will make you 
get rid of a lot of receives by sending the data directly to a named 
object... even more usefull. (Thanks a lot Jeremy! and who ever 
suggested it before)

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At 9:34 AM +0200 4/7/06, Trond Lossius wrote:

>I believe it has been around for quite a while, but it seems to attract less attention than other objects.

I guess that that's what I get for being away from Max for a long time. Since I mostly learned Max before it was released, many of these new-fangled objects have passed me by.

At 9:34 AM +0200 4/7/06, Trond Lossius wrote:
>I believe it has been around for quite a while, but it seems to attract less attention than other objects.

At 11:12 AM +0200 4/7/06, Stefan Tiedje wrote:

>also check pattrforward it arrived just recently and it will make you get rid of a lot of receives by sending the data directly to a named object... even more usefull. (Thanks a lot Jeremy! and who ever suggested it before)

I wish I could use the whole pattr* family, but the project that I'm currently maintaining is stuck in OS 9, at least for a while longer.

At 11:12 AM +0200 4/7/06, Stefan Tiedje wrote:
>also check pattrforward it arrived just recently and it will make you get rid of a lot of receives by sending the data directly to a named object... even more usefull. (Thanks a lot Jeremy! and who ever suggested it before)

Send via "$1 message" undocumented behavior