Roby Steinmetzer

On 17 nov. 08, at 17:32, Emmanuel Jourdan wrote:

>> On 17 nov. 08, at 16:01, Roby Steinmetzer wrote:

>>> 2. Where do I get my object's information like position, size 

>>> etc. in the case of opening a Max4 patcher?

> You need to add a stdargs methods in your main:

>     class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobj_stdargs, "stdargs", A_CANT, 0);

> This method will be called when you do a attr_dictionary_process() 

> in your yourobj_new() method. In your stdargs method you can mess 

> t_max_err your_stdargs(t_dictionary *d, t_symbol *s, long argc, 

>     // if your object had something like for values to define x y width 

>         dictionary_appendatoms(d, gensym("patching_rect"), 4, argv);

> 1. How do I make appear my UI object in the objects palette?

> Putting an myobject.svg in the objects-palette folder doesn't seem 

On 17 nov. 08, at 17:32, Emmanuel Jourdan wrote:
>> On 17 nov. 08, at 16:01, Roby Steinmetzer wrote:
>>> 2.  Where do I get my object's information like position, size  
>>> etc. in the case of opening a Max4 patcher?

> You need to add a stdargs methods in your main:
>
> 	class_addmethod(c, (method)yourobj_stdargs, "stdargs", A_CANT, 0);
>
> This method will be called when you do a attr_dictionary_process()  
> in your yourobj_new() method. In your stdargs method you can mess  
> with the dictionary:
>
> t_max_err your_stdargs(t_dictionary *d, t_symbol *s, long argc,  
> t_atom *argv)
> {
> 	// if your object had something like for values to define x y width  
> height
> 	if (d && argc>3) {
> 		dictionary_appendatoms(d, gensym("patching_rect"), 4, argv);
> 	}
> 	return MAX_ERR_NONE;
> }
>
> ej

how about my other question:
> 1. How do I make appear my UI object in the objects palette?
> Putting an myobject.svg in the objects-palette folder doesn't seem  
> to be enough.

max5-ui-objects

On 18 nov. 08, at 00:50, Roby Steinmetzer wrote:

>> 1. How do I make appear my UI object in the objects palette?

>> Putting an myobject.svg in the objects-palette folder doesn't seem 

I'll let David answer to that one in details, but basically you need 

to put some svg file in the object-palette folder as well as messing 

> how about my other question:
>>
>> 1. How do I make appear my UI object in the objects palette?
>> Putting an myobject.svg in the objects-palette folder doesn't seem  
>> to be enough.

I'll let David answer to that one in details, but basically you need  
to put some svg file in the object-palette folder as well as messing  
around with some palette*.json file.

In the object-palette folder, edit the palette*.json files with a text editor. you can then insert something like:

    "patching_rect" : [ 360.0, 378.0, 48.0, 48.0 ],

        "palette_numerical_order" : 14,

        "palette_category" : "Interface",

        "palette_caption" : "displayedname",

        "palette_action" : "bpatcher @name maxpatfilename"

But the "palette category" seems broken for me, at one point it was working fine: I could create my own categories (tabs), but now even regular objects are missing from certain categories. Anyone else has this problem?

In the object-palette folder, edit the palette*.json files with a text editor. you can then insert something like:
{
"box" : {
	"maxclass" : "fpic",
	"numinlets" : 1,
	"numoutlets" : 0,
	"patching_rect" : [ 360.0, 378.0, 48.0, 48.0 ],
	"pic" : "svgfilename.svg",
	"autofit" : 1,
	"id" : "obj-14",
	"instance_attributes": 	{
		"palette_numerical_order" : 14,
		"palette_category" : "Interface",
		"palette_caption" : "displayedname",
		"palette_action" : "bpatcher @name maxpatfilename"
	}
}

But the "palette category" seems broken for me, at one point it was working fine: I could create my own categories (tabs), but now even regular objects are missing from certain categories. Anyone else has this problem?


ok so yeah you need to edit the palette*.json file with a text editor and not directly with max, otherwise you'll end up with semi-functional palettes.

Max5 UI objects