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I try to create (scripting with [thispatcher]) a new message in a patch.

This worked fine in an old patch of mine, using "script new…" but it seems that I can't add presentation attributes this way.

So I switched to "script newobject…", but I discovered that  succession of spaces in the messages were replaced by one single space.

Any idea to create a message box with a text including many spaces, like "a     badly         named file", visible in presentation mode?

The following patch will probably explain better what I mean:

I try to create (scripting with [thispatcher]) a new message in a patch.

This worked fine in an old patch of mine, using "script new…" but...

scripting-new-message-boxes-including-spaces

i´ve only tried with max v7 (and not with v4 OSX, when 

was introduced), but it might be that it has always been like that(and now follows two assumptions...): 

, this is basically like writing "message" into an object box. this way the GUI object can be called, but the symbol of the attribute gets lost/broken.

2. if you type this into an objectbox manually, which then transforms into an GUI object, it also will destroy the spaces (and keeps working otherwise), just as with scripting.

For the workaround and the explanations, which make sense.

@Source Audio, I have no time now to investigate much, but it looks like the message box' size may be different using 

To get the best of both functions, I may finally use something like :

script new $2 message 400 250 130 196617 $1, script send $2 presentation 1, script send $2 presentation_rect 500 250 140 21

source audio provded perfect solution to the problem - but be careful it might not work for the 1-2 other objects in question.

Scripting new message boxes including spaces