Max for Live device title bar name and "info view" description
I'm working on a M4L device that I'll be sharing in the near future, so I'd like to spruce up the patch a bit with a custom device title bar name and info view description. I can't seem to find any information about how to do this.
Currently it just shows the file name without the .amxd as the title bar name.
I've tried the ol' patcher inspector's "title" parameter, but whenever I enter text and save the patch the text disappears. But I'm not sure if this is the correct parameter anyway.
Is there some setting or object I've missed? Or is it not possible to change these?
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I would like to second this. If anyone knows the field to add a more descriptive test, that would be amazing! No field in the patcher inspector seems to correspond with the title or description in the "info view" in live, as far as I can find.
Cheers!
No answer on this yet?
Well, looking at existing devices, one can see that it is the "annotation" attribute of each liveUI object that appears in the info view. For non-live UI objects like panel or bpatcher, if they're clickable, there's also an annotation field. Didn't find that in the reference easily.
More intricacies: the title of the info view is determined by the Long Name attribute (most often set via "link to scripting name"). This means if you want to have the info documentation show up also in a bpatcher or panel around a control, you have to give it a scripting name (bpatchers and panels have no Long Name), but it must be different from the control's name (otherwise Max will append a [1]). The trick here is to use a space somewhere (e.g. at the end), for which you must type "\ ", or enclose the string in double quotes.
HTH, still wondering if this is explained in some doc somewhere...