Script a snippet in to a patch
Just wondering if there is a message for thispatcher that will allow me to paste a snippet in to the patch. I know you can right click and "paste from" but I'm hoping to be able to create my own menu system for my snippets.
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if anywhere, then in javascript.
snippets arent objects...
Yup ur right! Anyway I couldn't find anything related on how to add a snippet from js.
If you can load up a snippet from the right click menu then shouldn't there be some way of recreating that action from inside the patch itself?
what technically could be possible is to add a "recording" mode to thispatcher scripting. i am wishing for that for a long time. you wouldnt not need to have invented "snippets" if that would work, you could just save a "thispatcher script" to disk.
of course the last created object in the patch will always keep the name, but that would be a minor problem.
i have no idea about javascript itself, but if you open a snippet as text you will find that it has a structure similar to a patcher file.
the hardest part would be to insert stuff relative to mouse position.
yeah, if you open a maxsnip file in textedit, you can copy the text and just paste it into your patch like you would with a normal patcher, too.
what else would be needed to reproduce the built-in function.
find by name, open as text, copy and paste, reposition, set dirty bit. whats more?
can snippets contain styles?