Cycling 74 » Topic: What's up with LiveApi object properties? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-liveapi-object-properties/feed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:12:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-liveapi-object-properties/#post-63668 <![CDATA[What's up with LiveApi object properties?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-liveapi-object-properties/#post-63668 Fri, 18 May 2012 08:33:12 +0000 Thijs Koerselman var clip = new LiveAPI();
clip.goto(“this_device canonical_parent clip_slots 0 clip”);
var isPlaying = clip.get(“is_playing”);
post(isPlaying, typeof isPlaying);

This will print:
0 object

WTF? Why is this not a number and how do you parse it to an integer?

Something like this won’t work because of the object:
if(isPlaying) {
}

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-liveapi-object-properties/#post-229530 <![CDATA[Re: What's up with LiveApi object properties?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-liveapi-object-properties/#post-229530 Fri, 18 May 2012 08:47:00 +0000 Thijs Koerselman Ok it’s a similar problem to the LiveApi callback arguments I posted last week. I had contact with support about that and the answer was basically “It has always been like that”.

I really hope C74 will consider these things bugs. I am surprised nobody ran into these issues before.

Here’s a way to convert the object to an actual “number” to work with:

var ob = clip.get(“is_playing”);
var tmp = Array.prototype.slice.call(ob);
var isPlaying = tmp[0];
post(isPlaying, typeof isPlaying);

It will print something like:
0, number

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