kylepyke

Does anyone know how to get the sfplay~ object to report its state? If you send it a print message, it will print its state in the Max window directly, but is there anyway to get that information from my patch directly? I'm trying to gate behavior of my patch based on whether sfplay~ is currently playing or not.

sfplay-report-state

Well, this isn't quite the same thing as getting it from the horse's mouth but...

Why not just store the playing status yourself?

Well, this isn't quite the same thing as getting it from the horse's mouth but...
Why not just store the playing status yourself?


This totally works... if you're using 1s and 0s to trigger a start and stop, but if you a attach a playbar object, which just outputs a "toggleplay" message, it doesn't quite work. Especially if you have multiple means of starting and stopping the sfplay~ object.

Thanks for your suggestion, though Christopher!

sfplay~ report state?