Open/Edit Prototype?

jlambvo's icon

I'm dusting off Max after a good long hiatus. Prototypes seem immensely useful, but I'm trying to find some way of opening/editing an existing prototype, other than saving over it? If I've lost or edited the original patcher, is there no way to view the contents of a user-defined Prototype?

ch's icon

>> is there no way to view the contents of a user-defined Prototype?
Prototypes can be found in /Applications/Max5/patches/object-prototypes
you can open the *.maxproto with a text editor, and copy-paste the content to a
max patch.

>> If I've lost or edited the original patcher
Prototypes are not patchers. Maybe you thought about clippings as well?
those are in /Applications/Max5/patches/clipings

hope this helps