Ah. I found a way to do it. Not very elegant though - is there a better way?

{ x = (jsarguments[3]); z = (jsarguments[4]); list = (offset); obj = this.patcher.newdefault(x,z,"route",list,list+1, list+2,list+3,list+4,list+5); }

Hmm, turns out the output connections are harder! I have 6 named objects (smooth1-6) that I want to connect the outputs of the scripted [route] to. Currently the only way I can get it to work is to have the script name of one of the destination objects as argument[2] to the js object. That allows me to connect outlet 0 of route to inlet 0 of smooth1 (where I've used smooth1 as the argument to js).

I've tried creating the destination in the script - target_c = (jsarguments[2]) + 1; and then using target_c in the connection script - but it doesn't do anything. (I figure if I can get that working, then I can replace the + 1 with + i, and increment the i in a loop).

It seems that an argument[2] (eg smooth1) isn't the same (as far as the connection script is concerned) as argument[2] + 1 (ie smooth + 1 ... smooth1).

What am I missing?

function msg_int(offset) { target_a = this.patcher.getnamed(jsarguments[1]); target_b = this.patcher.getnamed(jsarguments[2]); var x = (jsarguments[3]); var z = (jsarguments[4]);

{ x = (jsarguments[3]); z = (jsarguments[4]); list = (offset); target_c = (jsarguments[2]) + 1;

post(target_c);

obj = this.patcher.newdefault(x,z,"route",list,list+1, list+2,list+3,list+4,list+5); this.patcher.connect(target_a,0,obj,0);

this.patcher.connect(obj,0,target_c ,0); } }

Well, it turned out simpler than I thought, after a bit of digging in the help files. I'd still be interested to know if there's an iterative way of doing this.

function msg_int(start) { i = start p = this.patcher; a = p.newdefault ( 260, 190,"route", i, i+1, i+2, i+3, i+4, i+5); b = p.getnamed("smooth"); c = p.getnamed("smooth1"); d = p.getnamed("smooth2"); e = p.getnamed("smooth3"); f = p.getnamed("smooth4"); g = p.getnamed("smooth5"); z = p.getnamed("zlrev1");

p.connect (z,0,a,0); p.connect (a,0,b,0); p.connect (a,1,c,0); p.connect (a,2,d,0); p.connect (a,3,e,0); p.connect (a,4,f,0); p.connect (a,5,g,0);

}

Here's one way of going about it using for() loops. It assumes you've named the objects you want to connect to dest[0] to dest[5] but you could always change the formatting. It uses another loop to create an array of the arguments you want rather than declaring all the additions seperately.

lh