Nicolas Lounis

My patch works perfectly when i open it with max, but when i export it in standalone, it can't find some medias (in "pictctrl" objects).

- Menu patch (clickable button to open the Main patch)

I added the Menu patch afterwards, and then it didn't work anymore. But when I had only the Main patch, the standalone works perfectly.

Hi,
My patch works perfectly when i open it with max, but when i export it in standalone, it can't find some medias (in "pictctrl" objects).

The architecture is as follows:
- Menu patch (clickable button to open the Main patch)
- Main patch

Hi,
My patch works perfectly when i open it with max, but when i export it in standalone, it can't find some medias (in "pictctrl" ... 

standalone-can't-find-some-medias-of-the-project

I'm not sure whether you are building your project directly from the "Menu" patch or by using a MaxProject file. Either way, you need to make sure that Max knows to include the "Main" patch in the collective it generates for Menu. One way is to embed the code for Main as a sub-patcher inside the Menu patch using a 

) object. Alternatively, if you need to keep Main separate and only access it via global entities (such as 

, etc), then you might need to include Main as an object in Menu even though it has no connections. This will also apply to other external entities that you need to include.

For example, my current project has 39 sub-patches and other resources that it depends on, which I manage in a project file:

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Those subpatches that have inlets and outlets can be referenced by a simple Max objects of the same name as the patch (assuming that they are in the search path) included in your code, for example:

and Max will resolve the links. However, I also have to create objects for all the patch modules that are only accessed via global references even though those objects will have no connection points, for example:

Running my top level patch inside the Max editor will work without these "dummy" objects but the standalone will not.

I'm not sure whether you are building your project directly from the "Menu" patch or by using a MaxProject file. Either way, you need to make sure that Max knows to include the "Main" patch in the collective it generates for Menu. One way is to embed the code for Main as a sub-patcher inside the Menu patch using a [patcher Main] (or [p Main]) object. Alternatively, if you need to keep Main separate and only access it via global entities (such as [send], [receive], [forward], [pattr], [value], etc), then you might need to include Main as an object in Menu even though it has no connections. This will also apply to other external entities that you need to include.

Standalone can't find some medias of the project