James Bradbury

I am making a modified version of the helpdetails.js file for a package. I want similar functionality, except my version of helpdetails.js would look at another section and not just the content between tags the tags <digest> and <description>. The original code looks simple. You take the text between two tags using dict.get("tags"). You then do any necessary drawing parameters and then call show_text(nameOfVar) where nameOfVar is the data assigned from dict.get(). My problem is that no matter what I do, dict.get will return an object and not a string. It will always return a string if dict.get() is pointed to 'digest' or 'description' but anything else fails.

Here is a boiled down version of the code where I have removed extraneous stuff for testing.

this.box.message("border", 0);
this.box.message("ignoreclick", 1);
mgraphics.init();
mgraphics.relative_coords = 0;
mgraphics.autofill = 0;
var alpha = 1.0;
var name = jsarguments[1];
var dict;
var paramDesc = "";
var desc = "";

function init()
{
    dict = max.getrefdict(name);
    if (typeof(dict) == "object") {
        paramDesc = dict.get("params");
        dict.freepeer();
    }
}

The start of the .maxref.xml file is here.

Generates frames that consist of linear ramps from [0-x].

dafiodsafidfoafioaiodaoisdf x depends on the scaling parameter. The size of the output is dependent on the mode. The output size may either be set as a parameter, or be set to match that of the triggering input.

I am making a modified version of the helpdetails.js file for a package. I want similar functionality, except my version of helpdetails.js would look at another section and not just the content between tags the tags <digest> and <description>. The original code looks simple. You take the text between two tags using dict.get("tags"). You then do any necessary drawing parameters and then call show_text(nameOfVar) where nameOfVar is the data assigned from dict.get(). My problem is that no matter what I do, dict.get will return an object and not a string. It will always return a string if dict.get() is pointed to 'digest' or 'description' but anything else fails. 

function init()
{
	dict = max.getrefdict(name);
	if (typeof(dict) == "object") {
		paramDesc = dict.get("params");
		dict.freepeer();
	}
}

<c74object category="fl_Generators" module="FrameLib" name="fl.ramp~"> 
 
 <digest> 
        Generates frames that consist of linear ramps from [0-x].
 </digest> 
 
 <description> 
         dafiodsafidfoafioaiodaoisdf x depends on the scaling parameter. The size of the output is dependent on the mode. The output size may either be set as a parameter, or be set to match that of the triggering input.
 </description> 

 <params>
        This should be displayed!
 </params>

I am making a modified version of the helpdetails.js file for a package. I want similar functionality, except my version of helpdetails.js w

dict.get returns an object where I would expect a string.