Loadmess not working
Hello, I have a loadmess with the message zoomfactor to thispatcher object and it's not working.
I'm not sure what you mean as [thispatcher] does not understand a message named "zoomfactor".
What exactly are you trying to achieve?
Sometimes you need to be a bit more diligent in how messages are communicated, such as this snippet that maximises the active patch window:
Ah yes! I recall now that there are numerous commands for [thispatcher] that are not mentioned in the help file or reference book. And this is one of them!
"zoomfactor" work since 7.x. in what version or platform does it not work for you?
what remains difficult is the relative re-positioning of the patcher content after zooming.
Yes! The message zoomfactor works well, but when I put in the loadmess, it does not trigger when opened.
I want to put a 75% zoom for default in that patch.
Deferlow. The patcherview is not fully contructed when loadbang fires.
Nice thanks! Now it is working! Is there another way to put a different default zoom?
No, but templates are super useful and can also include the loadmess + thispatcher.
You could put stuff into a js that removes itself after loading. For example save this as patcherconf.js or similar:
var task = new Task(bang);
function loadbang()
{
task.schedule();
}
function bang()
{
// make your custom settings
this.patcher.setattr('zoomfactor', 2.0);
this.patcher.wind.scrollto(0,0);
// remove this js box
this.patcher.remove(this.box);
}if you save this js with a patcher template, you can customize things but still start with a clean canvas, but that doesn't help to remeber the zoom once the patcher is reloaded. You can't do it without saving some objects with the patcher to manage this.