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Through all my years of patching I always believed it was an unbreakable rule that all object trigger their outlets in a right to left sequence. However, the folder [object] does it the other way around, first outputs everything out the left outlet, then send the file count out the right outlet.

I built a patch expecting [folder] to output "right to left" and it then took me a while to find a bug linked to the fact that it does "left to right"....

I think it's a (small) bug. Or is this a feature?

using max 8.1.8 on macbook pro 16inch with catalina 10.15.7

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Hi forum,
Through all my years of patching I always believed it was an unbreakable rule that all object trigger their outlets in a right to left sequence.   However, the folder [object] does it the other way around, first outputs everything out the left outlet, then send the file count out the right outlet.

I built a patch expecting [folder] to output "right to left" and it then took me a while to find a bug linked to the fact that it does "left to right"....

I think it's a (small) bug.  Or is this a feature?

using max 8.1.8 on macbook pro 16inch with catalina 10.15.7

here's small patch demonstrating this:


Hi forum,
Through all my years of patching I always believed it was an unbreakable rule that all object trigger their outlets in a right to 

-folder-output-order-bug-or-feature

There are some old threads on this topic in this forum : [folder] always worked this way.

Considere this as a feature rather than a bug : when a value is sent to the righmost outlet, it means that the leftmost outlet has finished to output the list of names.

But you are right, it breaks the right-to-left rule! A clear statement in the helpfile and doc would be nice.

There are some old threads on this topic in this forum : [folder] always worked this way.
Considere this as a feature rather than a bug : when a value is sent to the righmost outlet, it means that the leftmost outlet has finished to output the list of names.

But you are right, it breaks the right-to-left rule! A clear statement in the helpfile and doc would be nice.

Maybe just fix it yourself? This is probably what I'd do.

Maybe just fix it yourself?  This is probably what I'd do.

yea that's what i did. Still decided to ask about this "feature" though. I agree that a clear statement in the helpfile would have been nice here.

yea that's  what i did.  Still decided to ask about this "feature" though.  I agree that a clear statement in the helpfile would have been nice here.  

[folder] output order, bug or feature?