Iain Duncan

Hi folks, wondering if anyone knows of ways to reroute the Max console output to an external app? I'm hunting for a workaround to make screencasts that require the console output to be visible larger than is possible on the console.

Hi folks, wondering if anyone knows of ways to reroute the Max console output to an external app? I'm hunting for a workaround to make scree

reroute-console-output-to-sdout-or-something-on-osx

Well I figured out that if I start Max from the terminal I get stdout with all console input, so that should work. But if anyone knows other ways, I'm all ears!

For anyone finding this, I found a better solution on OSX. The below can be used to filter from the global system logs and get only the messages you want. In my case, I only want messages with "s4m" in them, showing me all Max console messages with that string. By doing this in iTerm I can make the font as big as I want.

log stream --predicate 'eventMessage contains "s4m"' --info --style compact

This way, one can run Max normally (not started at a terminal).

There is also the ; max setmirrortoconsole message.

Thanks, how does that work? Is that a message to thispatcher?

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/messages_to_max

A message to Max : https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/messages_to_max 

Just put "; max setmirrortoconsole " in a message box ond click it.

In case anyone finds this by searching, I came up with a solution thanks to a tip in another thread that is working really well. I used pyliblo to make an OSC listener, and in max I have:

'console' -> 'tosymbol' -> 'prepend /max' -> 'udpsend 127.0.0.1 7778'

Then I run iTerm with my listener and use that as the console, allowing me to make it as big as I want.

The listener is dead simple and is below if anyone wants to use it.



# adapted from pyliblo examples here:
# http://das.nasophon.de/pyliblo/examples.html
from liblo import *
import sys
port = 7778

class OscServer(ServerThread):
    def __init__(self):
        ServerThread.__init__(self, port)

   @make_method('/max', 's')
    def max_callback(self, path, args):
        for a in args:
            print(">", a)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("receive_from_max.py OSC listener")
    try:
        server = OscServer()
    except ServerError:
        sys.exit()
 

   server.start()
    input("listening on port %i to Max console\n...press Enter to quit.\n" % port)

The listener is dead simple and is below if anyone wants to use it. 

Reroute console output to sdout or something on OSX