please give system/version information, etc. without this, there's little that anyone can do for you.

jl

Oops, here is some more information:

Win XP Pro(updated regularly by our network administrator), most recent version of Max MSP (4.6)and Jitter.

External folders is: C:/Program Files/Cycling'74/MaxMSP46/Cycling'74/externals

The problem arises with a single clip object in a patcher.

It worked like a charm until today.

Fortunately, I can work with the clip.mxe directly in the program directory. I tried various things, including reloading a fresh version of clip.mxe.

Regards

Dominique

do you have anything else in your search paths named "clip"?

jl

In fact, I found in my search path a recently created clip.txt document I saved from Wordpad, with textual information. Changing its name to clips.txt solved definitely the problem.

I did not think that Max could give priority to a clip.txt file outside Cycling74 folder.

Problem solved. Many thanks for the rapid help.

Dominique

CEA is the french atomic energy agency, but has also ather fields of interest. I am working in the CEA Leti lab, which is a 1500 P. lab working on microelectronics. My domain of interest is new micro (and nanosensors), and I am in charge of new applications ideas implementing such sensors. As an old MAX user (Opcode times), I like using the MAX platform for rapid prototyping of applications, from sensors processing externals (Java, C++) up to jitter patches for some 3D presentation, or for multimedia demonstration of the sensors. No other tools I know exhibit such broad field of experimentation. We have now 4 MAX/MSP/Jitter licenses in the lab.

See also Minatec on the web.

Dominique