jonah

i thought maybe it was just max u/i stuff, number, flonum, toggle, button, bpatcher, comment, message, preset all work with just the name in " ", but then none of the other u/i works...

thought it might have something to do with maxclass, but nothing i've tried has worked either.

figuring out the max specific syntax is making me feel really dumb.

how-to-use-patcher-newobject-to-create-specific-maxmspjitter-objects

yeah , it also wasnt clear to me at first time . You have to use 

 method in order to create such objects .

this.patcher.newdefault(10,10,"jit.playlist");



Hi !
yeah , it also wasnt clear to me at first time . You have to use newdefault method in order to create such objects .

as jit for example is a prefix for a subclass name of a maxclass . With newobject u can create objects of a maxclass objects directly . With newdefault u can address to all other subtypes  .


newdefault i've been able to use. :) but using .rect or .message("sandbox" "patching_rect") i haven't really been able to scale objectbox sizes to be bigger or smaller...

i guess what's confusing me is... if you load up the patchdescribe-example.js and manually add, say a counter object, it says maxclass "counter".

var i = this.patcher.newobject ("message");

yet i have been unable to format something like this to work.

var i = this.patcher.newobject ("counter"); //etc, etc.

'closest' :) i've been able to get is if i put in "newobject" at least max says missing arguments or unknown argument type. ;) or putting in "newobj" i can get a empty object and size it... kinda... typing name in max, the js editor will usually close on it's own, can't re-open, max says stuff like: zgetfn (vis): corrupt object and max will crash shortly regardless. lol

why "slider" works, but not "kslider", preset, but no matrixctrl?

or adding something pointing at the maxclass "counter" in a silly version of the movement part of scriptnewdefault-example.maxpat, works.

but, if it's nothing i'm doing wrong...other than trying to do something you can't lol, i don't care.

i guess it's good, i must've skipped over a big part of the documentation, i'll have to go look, hopefully that'll clear some other stuff up too.

for (var obj = this.patcher.firstobject, cnt = 10; obj;obj = obj.nextobject, cnt=cnt+10)

         if (obj.varname !== "dont")

         if(obj.maxclass == "message" || obj.maxclass == "counter")

        var w = cnt-(5*Math.sin(x));

        width = obj.rect[2]+10 - obj.rect[0];

        height = obj.rect[3] - obj.rect[1]-20;

        r[0] = x+cnt+(w*Math.sin(y/x));

        r[1] = y+cnt-(w*Math.sin(x*.1));

i guess what's confusing me is... if you load up the patchdescribe-example.js and manually add, say a counter object,  it says maxclass "counter".

why this works
function bang (){
var i = this.patcher.newobject ("message");
}
yet i have been unable to format something like this to work.
function bang (){
var i = this.patcher.newobject ("counter"); //etc, etc.
}
 'closest'  :) i've been able to get is if i put in "newobject" at least max says missing arguments or unknown argument type. ;) or putting in "newobj" i can get a empty object and size it... kinda... typing name in max, the js editor will usually close on it's own, can't re-open, max says stuff like: zgetfn (vis): corrupt object and max will crash shortly regardless. lol 

why "slider" works, but not "kslider", preset, but no matrixctrl?
or adding something pointing at the maxclass "counter" in a silly version of the movement part of scriptnewdefault-example.maxpat,  works.

but, if it's nothing i'm doing wrong...other than trying to do something you can't lol, i don't care. 

var vx = 200;
var vy = 200;
function location(x,y)
{
	vx = x;
	vy = y;
	var i = 0;

for (var obj = this.patcher.firstobject, cnt = 10; obj;obj = obj.nextobject, cnt=cnt+10)
	{
		 if (obj.varname !== "dont")
		{
		 if(obj.maxclass == "message" || obj.maxclass == "counter")
		 {
		var width,height;
		var r = new Array();
		var w = cnt-(5*Math.sin(x));

		width  = obj.rect[2]+10 - obj.rect[0];
		height = obj.rect[3] - obj.rect[1]-20;
		r[0] = x+cnt+(w*Math.sin(y/x));
		r[1] = y+cnt-(w*Math.sin(x*.1));
		r[2] = x+width;
		r[3] = y+height;

how to use patcher.newobject to create specific max/msp/jitter objects?