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I am in a script in a js object inside a subpatch called subpatchA. How do I access a sibling subpatch (subpatchB) and reference an object within it using Javascript?

How do I access "obj" from inside the js script?

I am in a script in a js object inside a subpatch called subpatchA. How do I access a sibling subpatch (subpatchB) and reference an object within it using Javascript? 

To clarify the structure of my patch is: 

root
---subpatchA
------js
---subpatchB
------object (scripting name "obj")

traverse-subpatchers-and-reference-max-object-using-javascript

Here's a little example of how to do this using the applydeep() method:

Great thanks Luke! Is this the only way to do it? It seems quite long winded to search every object in the patch when all I really want is to return a reference to one object. Is there no way to access them directly?

You can use getnamed() to find the specific object without checking every object in the subpatch. It would be easier if your [patcher] object had a specific name so you could find it immediately. In the following method you still need to iterate through every object in your parent patch which is less than ideal:

OK cool. If I simply name the subpatch "patch1" then:

this.patcher.parentpatcher.getnamed("patch1")

returns a reference to the [patcher] object. Is there a way to look inside it from there?

this.patcher.parentpatcher.getnamed("patch1").getnamed("findme")

throws an error. Maybe something with wind.assoc() or something like that?

this.patcher.parentpatcher.getnamed("patch1").subpatcher().getnamed("findme")

will return the maxobj of the object with scripting name "findme" in the adjacent subpatch.

Beautiful - Great work Luke! Thank you kindly!

I've written a dollar function for quickly returning a reference to a Max object in any patcher. This should make people's lives a bit easier.

http://blog.crondesign.com/2011/03/maxmsp-javascript-dollar-function.html

Here it is:
http://blog.crondesign.com/2011/03/maxmsp-javascript-dollar-function.html


Traverse subpatchers and reference max object using Javascript?