Cycling 74 » Topic: strange s/r message order in max http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:48:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-65072 <![CDATA[strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-65072 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:00:54 +0000 dreamug when make a Send object [call it sA]， i can’t predict the order of the the rAs and it’s always jumping.

Firstly I found the order of the receive is the order you created it, but it changed after i close the file and open it again.
the order is totally reversed…..

I think this is a bug in Max, or I just didn’t get the right point.
Please Help me, Thanks a lot.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234629 <![CDATA[Re: strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234629 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:34:25 +0000 andrea agostini Hi.

this is no bug… that’s just how Max works. You can’t make any assumption on the order in which a message will be passed from one [send] to several [receive]s. Btw, this is why I generally don’t like send/receive!

hth
aa

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234630 <![CDATA[Re: strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234630 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:29:18 +0000 goodparleyandorfing I’ve never tried this (and it has ‘bad practice’ written all over it), but if the order can be predicted in the way you describe (i.e. by order of instantiation) then it would follow that the behaviour you want could be achieved via scripting with [thispatcher]. That way you could create the [receive]s dynamically, in a set sequence every time you open the patch.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234631 <![CDATA[Re: strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234631 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:40:06 +0000 dreamug Thanks for all reply.

goodparleyandorfing, I don’t get your point of “make it dynamically”, could you give me more details about it?

thx!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234632 <![CDATA[Re: strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234632 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:43:01 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan As Andrea mentioned, send/receive order is not guaranteed, you should never rely on it. What does it mean?

#1 they are cases where order doesn’t matter… so you might be fine.
#2 if order matters consider using trigger and multiple send/receives

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234633 <![CDATA[Re: strange s/r message order in max]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/strange-sr-message-order-in-max/#post-234633 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:21:28 +0000 goodparleyandorfing Hi Dreamug,

You should follow the other advice in this post: what I proposed was very much me thinking aloud, and a far from viable solution even if it works. (That said, this hastily cobbled together experiment does seem to substantiate my hypothesis…)

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