Set an object name that doesn't match the filename?
Apr 15 2009 | 5:56 am
In the SDK examples, the times~ object uses this line of code:
class_setname("*~","times~"); // because the filename on disk is different from the object name in Max
However, this seems obsolete under the new API. I can comment it out and the behavior doesn't change.
I wanted to accomplish something similar in an object I was working on, and thought I could use class_alias(), but this causes compile to fail during the linking stage, which seemed odd.
I also tried changing the first param to class_new() to be the name I want but that seems to be ignored.
In the new API, is the only way to use a name that doesn't match the project/filename to append to the max-objectmappings.txt or audio-objectmappings.txt file (or perhaps add an additional custom mappings file)? Or am I missing something?