David Butler

Is there any way within Max to test to see if an external object is installed on the system?

test-for-objects-existence

you can try to instantiate the external and watch the output of the error object.

If you want to do it programatically, try this:

That's cool, I like the possibilities with [absolutepath]. Note that on Windows the extensions will be .mxe.

I tried the error object but it didn't seem to catch any errors that occur when the patch loads, probably because they load before the loadmess message gets to error to turn on reporting.

No matter though, the absolutepath method is sound.

Test For Object's Existence