Change data of message box in locked patch

    carloskleiber
    Jan 01 2013 | 10:48 pm
    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
    • Rick
      Jan 01 2013 | 11:23 pm
      Use the prepend object, not sure why you need the gate.
    • abstractionisms
      Jan 01 2013 | 11:36 pm
    • carloskleiber
      Jan 02 2013 | 9:45 am
      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...
    • broc
      Jan 02 2013 | 10:33 am
      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.
    • carloskleiber
      Jan 02 2013 | 3:25 pm
      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.
    • broc
      Jan 02 2013 | 4:03 pm
      You simply forgot to enable parameter mode of pattr.
      Here is the corrected version which works for me.
    • carloskleiber
      Jan 02 2013 | 5:28 pm
      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