electrogear

I've been about an hour trying to suss this problem. I kept getting the message 'can't convert int to type of argument 1' when trying to use 'sprintf %Id'. After going over and over this I finally noticed the % sign I had typed in was slightly different in that the upper circle was slightly ovalled, where on the Max examples the circles were both perfect. I'm not sure if this is a Windows 7 problem, I suspect it is, in that it is using the wrong (unicode?) charachter. Anybody know of a fix for this? I can't even copy/paste because even that alters it to the wrong one...

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Yes, that works. If I copy and paste the object it works fine, but if I copy & paste the text within it sometimes it doesn't work and sometimes it does. Odd. If I type it from scratch it never works. See if my example below does the same for you.

I think you have capital i's where you should have lower case l's.

Yep, lh (not Ih) nailed it. That's a lower-case L, not an upper-case I.

I replaced the I with an l in your example and it worked fine.

Yep, lh (not Ih) nailed it.  That's a lower-case L, not an upper-case I.

I replaced the I with an l in your example and it worked fine.


Ooops! Thanks very much! I always though it was 'ID' meaning identification. I don't remember reading anything in the cycling documentation about it, or maybe I missed something? Thankyou for your help, and all the best.

Just remember that almost all objects, arguments, attributes, variables, etc. in Max use lower-case letters. Upper-case letters do occur, but they are pretty rare. When in doubt, use lower-case. Good luck!

Just remember that almost all objects, arguments, attributes, variables, etc. in Max use lower-case letters.  Upper-case letters do occur, but they are pretty rare.  When in doubt, use lower-case.  Good luck!


Search for "printf" on wikipedia and scroll down a bit for descriptions of the differet variable types you can use.

it appears that they changed ints in sprintf to be "%i", not "%Id". good move, but missing from the docs.

There is not much in the Max documentation because sprintf is a standard C-library function. The Max documentation refers the reader to standard sprintf documentation, which is available in near-unending supply elsewhere.

% signs?!?