clear the max window from within a patcher ?

Hi!
Yeah, I agree with you. Sometimes that makes me angry too.
I already tried to edit the "maxinterface.json" file, there's some lines in there about max window, but I had no sucess.
The solution I found so far is a series of shortcuts, which are not very handy because it's too many steps.
You are in your patch:
- use cmd+M to call max window.
- press cmd+A to select all
- press backspace to delete the selection
- then use the OSX shorcut "move focus to next window in active app", which in my mac is cmd+
That a bunch of steps, doesn't solve the problem at all.
Maybe with some kind of script to trigger all that shortcuts would be more usefull.

best regards,
dc

If you're on a mac you can use applescript and the [shell] or [aka.shell] external which you can find on maxobjects.com. I've attached one below which should do the job trick. You can trigger it by sending the message "osascript users///clearmaxwindow.scpt". You could also trigger the script using keyboard commands. I hope it helps.

lh

great script!

thereishopeforus@hotmail.com wrote on Fri, 11 September 2009 09:19If you're on a mac you can use applescript and the [shell] or [aka.shell] external which you can find on maxobjects.com. I've attached one below which should do the job trick.

lh

It would be nice to have a script which does this, which I seem to do a lot:

--Hide Foreground
--Hide Background
--Select All (cords)
--Hide on Lock
--Show Background
--Show Foreground

I think the foreground/background stuff can be done with messages to Max, but I don't know about the selection and Hide on Lock. It would be interesting to see how far one could go within Max itself (without {shell]), I imagine most commands are possible, but may be unexposed for safety reasons... you know how sloppy we users can get...

If you want to show/hide all patchcords I find it easier to select all and then command+shift+drag to de-select everything but the patch cords and then toggle show or hide. However you can do this all with keyboard shiftcuts in max. You need to edit the maxinterface.json text file. Go to about line 375 and you will find the "Show Foreground" and "Show Background" blocks, edit them to look something like this:

        {
            "message" : "showfg",
            "label" : "Show Foreground",
            "target" : "owner",
            "invmsg" : "hidefg",
            "invlabel" : "Hide Foreground",
            "shortcut" : "option+A"
        },
        {
            "message" : "showbg",
            "label" : "Show Background",
            "target" : "owner",
            "invmsg" : "hidebg",
            "invlabel" : "Hide Background",
            "shortcut" : "option+S"
        },

Notice that I've added a ,comma, to the end of the last line before my new "shortcut" definition. This will make the shortcut toggle for show/hide foreground command+alt+A and show/hide background will be command+alt+S (on a mac at least!). Now you should be able to run through the keyboard shortcuts in order:

command + E
command + alt + A
command + alt + S
command + A
command + K (or command + L)
command + alt + A
command + alt + S
command + E

and voila you can show/hide all patchcords, not quite as simple as one shortcut to do everything but it does work. You can also create a shortcut for copy compressed which I find really useful. You will have to restart max for the new shortcuts to take effect but the cool thing is that the key codes show up in the menus so you won't have to worry about forgetting them.

lh

nice idea with the shellscript.

back in the days i have been using

"______________________"
 |
[print ]

to get some structure into messy maxmsp consoles, works too.

-110

Yeh that's a nice trick too, especially when you're checking something a bit hectic and you have [print]s all over the place. I've written a little javascript which is like [print] which you can instantiate with multiple arguments and gives you an input for each, nothing major but it saves a few seconds here and there.

lh

// lh.nprint
inlets = jsarguments.length - 1;

function anything() {
    everything = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
    parsed = everything.map(format);
    names = jsarguments.map(format);
    function format(x) {
        if (typeof(x) == "number") {
            if (x % 1 == 0) {
                return x;
            } else {
                return x.toFixed(6).toString().replace(/0+$/,"");
            }
        } else {
            return x;
        }
    }
    post(names[inlet + 1] + ": " + parsed.join(" ") + "n");
}
// EOF

Hi All!

There is a external to clean max window, check here:
http://www.bloghotel.org/tworowski/85531/

great external !
thanks a lot for this :-)

it would be realy cool to implement a save function.
best,
d.