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I'm trying to get my annotations for my interface objects to appear in Ableton's "Info View" window, but the behavior is seemingly unpredictable. I can reliably see my annotation for a pictslider object, but my annotations for my live.objects (live.text, live.menu, live.number, live.tab, live.text) hardly ever appear.

Any thoughts? Thanks! 

Max OS 10.14.6
Ableton 10.1.1
Max 8.0.4

I'm trying to get my annotations for my interface objects to appear in Ableton's "Info View" window, but the behavior is seemingly unpredict

live-object-annotations

I find the annotation visibility sometimes doesn’t work if I’ve updated/saved the amxd file while the live set is open, but if I save and re-open the live set it is fine. However I use a slightly non-standard way of editing/saving my devices though so that may not be the same thing.

But more generally I have not found the live.* object annotations to behave worse than annotations on standard max objects.

I find the annotation visibility sometimes doesn’t work if I’ve updated/saved the amxd file while the live set is open, but if I save and re-open the live set it is fine.  However I use a slightly non-standard way of editing/saving my devices though so that may not be the same thing.

Saving and reopening seems to do the trick. Thanks!

I use a slightly non-standard way of editing/saving my devices

sure, I just never use the “edit” button in the device. I do all the coding in standalone Max and then export the device and copy that amxd over whichever amxd version is currently being used in Live (using shell/python scripts). Queries to the api while I’m developing don’t work, but it makes working with shared code/packages outside of a device’s project folder much cleaner (otherwise you get versioning/search path mayhem with the shared code).

sure, I just never use the “edit” button in the device.  I do all the coding in standalone Max and then export the device and copy that amxd over whichever amxd version is currently being used in Live (using shell/python scripts).  Queries to the api while I’m developing don’t work, but it makes working with shared code/packages outside of a device’s project folder much cleaner (otherwise you get versioning/search path mayhem with the shared code).

Live.object annotations