Kirkwood West

How do I make it so a long string like a sentance doesn't get broken up into seperate arguments when sending it over to javscript...

this would get broken up into 5 arguments. i want it to remain as one.

function anything() {
    // Receives strings from M4L and passes them to
    // the core's trigger_action_list method.
    var action_list = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
        var action_string = "";
        post("this many arguments: " + arguments.length);
        for (i=0;i<action_list.length;i++){
            action_string = action_string + action_list[i] + " "; 
        }
        post("Entire String! " + action_string);
}

(Also not sure how to attach maxforlive scripts with javascript here...)

attempt_to_fix_spaces.maxpat

print_spaces.js

function anything() {
	// Receives strings from M4L and passes them to
	// the core's trigger_action_list method.
    var action_list = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
        var action_string = "";
        post("this many arguments: " + arguments.length);
        for (i=0;i<action_list.length;i++){
            action_string = action_string + action_list[i] + " "; 
        }
        post("Entire String! " + action_string);
}

(Also not sure how to attach maxforlive scripts with javascript here...)


How do I make it so a long string like a sentance doesn't get broken up into seperate arguments when sending it over to javscript...
sprintf

-js-interprets-spaces-as-seperate-arguments

Output of your example is not broken into separate arguments on my system (MacOS Mojave, Max 8.0.3):

.js interprets spaces as seperate arguments...