Joe Kaplan

Just sharing this with the forum in case it's useful to others. I needed to ensure there would only ever be one instance of my object in the entire patch. Below is the solution I came up with. It seems to work pretty well. This seems to be a good example of what s_thing is for in the t_symbol.

I used the following for the constructor for my MaxObject.

c74::max::t_symbol* Exists = c74::max::gensym("ObjectInstance");

Just sharing this with the forum in case it's useful to others.  I needed to ensure there would only ever be one instance of my object in the entire patch.  Below is the solution I came up with.  It seems to work pretty well.  This seems to be a good example of what s_thing is for in the t_symbol.

MyMaxObject() {
        //Make a singleton
       c74::max::t_symbol* Exists = c74::max::gensym("ObjectInstance");
       if (Exists->s_thing) {
           cout << "Class already exists" << endl;
           return;
       }
       Exists->s_thing = maxobj();
 }

Just sharing this with the forum in case it's useful to others.  I needed to ensure there would only ever be one instance of my object in th

A Simple Procedure to Create a Singleton Max Object with MIN