Change data of message box in locked patch
Hello,
I need a message box that's data can be changed without unlocking the patch and that remembers its last data after saving. I thought of a solution with a [textedit] sending to a message box's right inlet through some gate system. Unfortunately the system isn't predictable and I cannot figure out if the problem is with [textedit]'s initialization (I don't see a system why textedit sometimes keeps its last content after saving-reopening and sometimes not) with the gate's particularities (indeed logically gate and gswitch1 and 2 should react the same way and the don't) or some other thing.
all suggestions welcome!
toscanini
Use the prepend object, not sure why you need the gate.
Thank you for the answers, unfortunately none of the solutions pass the test of saving - closing - reopening the patch. As I reopen the message box is empty. @Rick, the idea of the gate was to make sure nothing passes in the right inlet of the message box at initialization.
I keep experiencing an adventurous behavior in the textedit: no idea why it would discard data at reopening or keep some old one over many savings/reopenings. So I did like the idea of not even using textedit but in nicolas' patch the message box still blanks out.
Maybe Rick's patch with textedit reinforced with a pattr will work, but it is a bit of an overkill.
fwiw I use M4L so maybe all this is perfectly predictable with the max standalone version, but that would be weird...
When using [textedit] in M4L you need to connect a [pattr] with parameter mode enabled.
This way it remembers the last data after saving the Live set.
Thank you for the new messages. @Nicolas, I really dig your method without [textedit] but the message content still changes as I reopen the patch. And [message] won't accept a pattr bindto connection.
@broc, yes, I was thinking of that but even the version with [pattr] bindto the problem subsists. Comparing to Rick's solution I have even removed the [loadbang] to make sure the message box won't overwrite the textedit content, and it still doesn't work. I am a bit clueless. Here is my last attempt and a short illustration video.
You simply forgot to enable parameter mode of pattr.
Here is the corrected version which works for me.
Bingo! Thank you guys. I always remember checking the "parameter enable" box for the [pattrstorage] but obviously overlooked that the same mode also exited for [pattr]
I cannot imagine how many older patches this new knowledge will fix for me :P