GhostandtheMachine

I am trying to have the js give me the current real world time when it receives a bang. I am pretty useless with JS so i hacked it out of the jsui in the help file. can anyone offer any suggestions?

var hour = vdate.getHours();
var minute = vdate.getMinutes();
var second = vdate.getSeconds();

        hour += minute/60;
        minute += second/60;

    var vdate = new Date();
    outlet(0,hour,minute);
}

what-am-i-missing-to-get-the-current-time

It depends quite a lot on how you want the time formatted. The code below will send out the list: when the object receives a bang, much like sending the message "time" to the [date] object.

// lh.time

function bang() {
    d = new Date();
    outlet(0,d.getHours(),d.getMinutes(),d.getSeconds());
}
// EOF


It depends quite a lot on how you want the time formatted. The code below will send out the list:    when the object receives a bang, much like sending the message "time" to the [date] object.

man, I don't know how I didn't see the date object. Since I'm trying to learn JS it's ok either way, I just wanna see what I didn't do.

Any time, I've dived into javascript recently to see if I can get to grips with it before venturing in to compiled languages like java and maybe eventually c so feel free to ask away if you get caught out by anything. The "hour += minute/60; minute += second/60;" bits were causing the problem as they are basically returning the time as a decimal so 6:30:40 would give 6.5 hours and 30.666667 minutes. I hope that clears things up a bit.

That is my approach as well. Max is my first programing so real code is new still. I have been trying to learn python as well because I hear QT is a cool way to go if I am into GUI design, which I am. I can now read through stuff and understand a lot of it but creating it from scratch is a big jump for me.

I was messing around with a couple objects i wanted to make that would be like a route object for prepending and appending kind of like an opposite to route where you assign the prepend arguments in the name. I wanted it be a JS practice session but I couldn't get past the basics of managing the arguments in the JS loops. the for loops have been hard for me to get comfortable with. I ended up making what i wanted by making a little patch to parse the patcherargs and use scripting to create the prepend/append object and connect them to inlets and an outlet. The objects are supper useful. I just thought it might be more efficient to use one JS object to do it.

That is my approach as well. Max is my first programing so real code is new still. I have been trying to learn python as well because I hear QT is a cool way to go if I am into GUI design, which I am. I can now read through stuff and understand a lot of it but creating it from scratch is a big jump for me. 

I was messing around with a couple objects i wanted to make that would be like a route object for prepending and appending kind of like an opposite to route where you assign the prepend arguments in the name. I wanted it be a JS practice session but I couldn't get past the basics of managing the arguments in the JS loops. the for loops have been hard for me to get comfortable with. I ended up making what i wanted by making a little patch to parse the patcherargs and use scripting to create the prepend/append object and connect them to inlets and an outlet. The objects are supper useful. I just thought it might be more efficient to use one JS object to do it. 

If you want you could post the patch here I'll have a look and see if I can give you any pointers on how to recreate it using javascript.

Awesome thanks! I'll post it below. My object has a subpatch to handle the scripting so there are two parts.

It would be really helpful to see it in JS. These prepending route objects got me thinking about making a JS that will allow batch creations of object groups. I am scripting new objects to be created for the prepend.append assignments which made me think about a way to do the same for whatever object. For example, I could send a message to a JS saying "build 10 sliders connected to prepend(1+)". I know this could be done with a funnel or something, but my goal is a way to create an object group with varing arguments/names. I am always bother by laying out a series of tools and needing to slave away giving unique names after duplicating so quickly.

this goes in the pproute patch file to be saved. It should be connected to a patcherargs object and then out to a thispatcher object.

Awesome thanks! I'll post it below. My object has a subpatch to handle the scripting so there are two parts. 

It would be really helpful to see it in JS. These prepending route objects got me thinking about making a JS that will allow batch creations of object groups. I am scripting new objects to be created for the prepend.append assignments which made me think about a way to do the same for whatever object. For example, I could send a message to a JS saying "build 10 sliders connected to prepend(1+)". I know this could be done with a funnel or something, but my goal is a way to create an object group with varing arguments/names. I am always bother by laying out a series of tools and needing to slave away giving unique names after duplicating so quickly. 

this goes in the pproute patch file to be saved. It should be connected to a patcherargs object and then out to a thispatcher object. 

Just a little tip to start: you don't need to post the contents of the [patcher] seperately as it is contained in the original file. You'd only need to do this if it was an abstraction (a max file saved seperately and instantiated in your main patch).

So basically this is a sort of multi-[prepend], which saves you from having to create multiple instances of the object, yes?

This is extremely simple in javascript as you don't have to worry about creating objects and positioning them, it's all done in code. Once you get into it it should all become clear. Your patch could be recreated like this:

inlets = jsarguments.length-1;

function anything() {
    all = arrayfromargs(messagename,arguments);
    outlet(0,jsarguments[inlet+1],all);
}


We create the same amount of inlets as we have arguments in the object (the minus one is because the first argument is always the javascript file name). The anything() function responds to all input to the object be it a float, int, list, bang etc. We store this to the variable "all" as an array. Finally we use the "inlet" property to query which inlet received the message (note that the count is starting from 0 so we must add one) and use this to decide which of our arguments to prepend. Et voila!

Dynamically creating new objects is a nice idea, in fact it is covered in javascript tutorial 2 so that might be worth a look. I hope this helps.

What am i missing to get the current time?