How to refer to a named object wihout knowing in which subpatcher it is?

On 7 sept. 08, at 22:36, Roald Baudoux wrote:

> Thanks for the code but it appears a little bit obscure to me.
>
> If I undestand it correctly I need to call the iterationmethod
> function first then the mess function.
>
> However, how do I get the MyObj variable? If I try to define it with
> var MyObj = new Maxobj and then call the iterationmethod function it
> doesn't work.

MyObj is the MaxObject passed as argument to the iterative function by
the applydeep method. Here's a tested version with more comments which
works fine. Let me know if that's not clear enough.

Best,
ej

var theFirstCollIWasLookingFor;    // variable which stores the "address"
to your coll object

function findthecoll()
{
this.patcher.applydeep(iterationmethod);    // iterate through the
objects (recursively, in supbatchers too)
}
findthecoll.local = 1;

function iterationmethod(MyObj)    // the iteration method (triggered by
findthecoll)
{
if (MyObj.maxclass == "coll" && MyObj.varname == "toto") {    // if
the object is a coll, and it have "toto" as scripting name
theFirstCollIWasLookingFor = MyObj; // store a reference
to your MaxObject in theFirstCollIWasLookingFor variable
return false; // get out, cause now you have one.
}
return true;    // this is required to continue the iteration
}
iterationmethod.local = 1;

function anything()    // when you send any message to the object, it
will forward it to the coll object
{
    var tmp = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
if (theFirstCollIWasLookingFor != undefined) {    // if the variable
is not empty it it means that we already have one coll found
        theFirstCollIWasLookingFor.message(tmp);
} else {    // no coll found yet, so we need to find it
        findthecoll();    // finding the coll object
        mess(tmp);        // send the message to the found call
    }
}