Fixed size of message window?

Jeremy Zuckerman's icon

Hi!

I've got a performance tomorrow so I'm really hoping someone will answer this... I'm sending a message box different amounts of text via OSC. The size of the box changes on me so that part of the text sometimes gets cut off. Is there a way to set a fixed size? Or maybe a better object? But it has to be supported by Miraweb.

Many thanks!
-j

brendan mccloskey's icon

The 3rd patching_rect attribute of message box determines its width (look in the help file). Not sure how to make width dependent upon a changing text length though?

Jeremy Zuckerman's icon

thanks so much for the response Brendan. that might actually work out just fine for me as I don't need the width to change, just the height.

Dan Laüt's icon

Perhaps a bit late in the day, but I'd use [textedit], as follows:

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Hope the performance went a'right anyway, Jerry!