The device is in a drum rack/chain...

check live.thisdevice

Hi Morgan, Thx but live.thisdevice is not working under this condition. The device is in a drum_pad/chain and several instances are in other drum_pads/chains. I have to bang live.thisdevice in each of the instances of the device whenever I load the live session. I am looking into M4L.api.SaveLivePath. Or perhaps I will trigger it with midiin...

hmm, I'm not quite sure why you're still having to manually bang it. . .

live.thisdevice is sort of the equivalent of loadbang in standalone max. Maybe you're needing live.observer rather than just live.path? Here's some m4l patch that might help... If you can explain what you want the id of the device for a little more, I can get more specific.

...the comment on the left of that pasted patch should say *live.observer, not live.object

Hi Morgan,

In fact the live.thisdevice was doing its job. But the flow was interrupted at a get selected_chain method. That is why every time when opening the live session I had to manually bang each instance of the device in the drum rack.

Getting the path from where the device is, is the clever approach. I just had to go back one step in the final path using zl.ecils 2 and observe the whatever property (ex:color) of each chain automatically. But I have to reload the live session every time I make a change to the device in max dev environnement for it to work. Otherwise each instances of the device get stuck on the same id.

Thx,

So you're having trouble just when editing now? You can double click the live.thisdevice or bang it to refresh. easier than saving and closing. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do and what might be the problem. could you post a patch?

No need to save the session. And closing and opening up the session again confirms that the method is working.

Also adding a live.thisdevice or replacing the loadmess for the exemple on the right side doesn't resolve anything. The interruption still occurs except to the instance of the device in a selected_chain (if any, depends on the save state) after opening the session.