jacobrendell

can someone please tell me how to open a .txt file as a patch in max/jitter? say for instance somebody puts a text in the forums which begins and ends with "----max5patch_begins/ends_here-----" this is a patch, is it not? i've read multiple times that a .txt can be opened with max but i cant figure it out. everytime i ask someone they tell me you just open the .txt in max and that's that... but all it does is open the actual text in a patcher window....

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To do this you copy that text from the forum onto the clipboard (Ctrl + C), then go to Max and select 'New From Clipboard' on the File menu and hey presto!!

There should be a FAQ for this forum, and that should be the first entry. I'd wager that 99% of the people on this board wasted more time than they should have figuring that out. I know I did.

The corollary is how you create them in that format...

Select the part of the patch you want to paste as text into the forum, select Copy Compressed from the Edit menu, paste into the forum.

You can also simply paste it into a patcher (as opposed to using New From Clipboard as mentioned above.)

>> "There should be a FAQ for this forum"

>> "There should be a FAQ for this forum"
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a FAQ section sounds like a good idea; this thread is a perfect example - a simple question with a simple (but less obvious) solution like this, does belong in a FAQ section; however, my concern would be that, due to the almost endless permutations and situations that Max's modularity creates, where do you draw the line as to what is a FAQ?

What I was suggesting was a FAQ for the forum, not for Max itself. Max already has documentation.

The section "Sharing Patches with Others" on the Max 5 FAQ might be a good place to explain this:

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