JS Require

Max now supports two new functions for having JS files which use other JS files for functionality without requiring them to be in the jsextensions folder and universally loaded by all JS objects:

1. var exports = require(filename) which works like CommonJS 1.0

http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/CommonJS

For example with the following in a file called require-example.js

// for require, the module must be defined by assigning anything
// the module wishes to export as properties of an "exports" property
// This exports property is the return value from the require function.
// modules included using require are always scoped to prevent collisions
// in the top level script. Currently we don't support any of the other
// typcial node.js module gobal properties like module.id, module.loaded, etc.

exports.foo = 37;
exports.bar = function () {
post("I'm executing bar\n");
}

This may then be included and used in another js file as the following:

var reqmodule = require("require-example");
reqmodule.bar();
post("foo is "+reqmodule.foo+"\n");

2. include(filename) which simply includes the javascript at the topmost level of the javascript file which calls this. This is more dangerous practice than the contained module definition of CommonJS and require(), but is useful in many situations

example attached