andrea agostini

I'm struggling with a bug I can't locate. Hopefully it's totally trivial and I'm just overlooking something, so I'd love another pair of eyes to have a look at it...

I have this UI object that behaves weirdly with respect to the classic r2l order of messaging. I stripped the object to the bare bones and made this dummy weirdbug object, but the problem is still there. What happens is that, in the patch below, when I click the message box [weirdbug] first receives a bang (on the left), and then the abc message (on the right). So my question is... WHY????? (I'm on a Mac, tried with both Max 5 and 6, and both the 5.1.7 and 6.0.4 SDKs)

To reproduce the problem, you should save and reopen the patch (if you just paste it, everything works fine).

t_weirdbug* weirdbug_new(t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv);

void weirdbug_paint(t_weirdbug *x, t_object *view);

void weirdbug_anything(t_weirdbug *x, t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv);

    object_post((t_object *) x, "bang!");

    c = class_new("weirdbug", (method)weirdbug_new, (method)weirdbug_free, sizeof(t_weirdbug), (method)NULL, A_GIMME, 0L);

    c->c_flags |= CLASS_FLAG_NEWDICTIONARY;

    class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_paint, "paint", A_CANT, 0);

    class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_bang, "bang", 0);

    class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_anything, "anything", A_GIMME, 0);

    class_register(CLASS_BOX, s_weirdbug_class);

void weirdbug_anything(t_weirdbug *x, t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv)

    object_post((t_object *) x, "anything!");

t_weirdbug* weirdbug_new(t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv)

    if (!(d=object_dictionaryarg(argc,argv)))

    x = (t_weirdbug*) object_alloc(s_weirdbug_class);

    //        | JBOX_TRANSPARENT

    //        | JBOX_BACKGROUND

    //        | JBOX_TEXTFIELD

    //        | JBOX_DRAWBACKGROUND

    //        | JBOX_DEFAULTNAMES

    //        | JBOX_MOUSEDRAGDELTA

    jbox_new(&x->r_ob, flags, argc, argv);

    x->r_ob.b_firstin = (t_object*) x;

void weirdbug_paint(t_weirdbug *x, t_object *view)

I'm struggling with a bug I can't locate. Hopefully it's totally trivial and I'm just overlooking something, so I'd love another pair of eyes to have a look at it...
I have this UI object that behaves weirdly with respect to the classic r2l order of messaging. I stripped the object to the bare bones and made this dummy weirdbug object, but the problem is still there. What happens is that, in the patch below, when I click the message box [weirdbug] first receives a bang (on the left), and then the abc message (on the right). So my question is... WHY????? (I'm on a Mac, tried with both Max 5 and 6, and both the 5.1.7 and 6.0.4 SDKs)

#include "ext.h"
#include "ext_obex.h"
#include "jpatcher_api.h"
#include "jgraphics.h"

typedef struct _weirdbug
{
	t_jbox r_ob;
    void *m_inlet;
} t_weirdbug;

t_weirdbug* weirdbug_new(t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv);
void weirdbug_paint(t_weirdbug *x, t_object *view);
void weirdbug_free(t_weirdbug *x);
void weirdbug_anything(t_weirdbug *x, t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv);
void weirdbug_bang(t_weirdbug *x);

void weirdbug_bang(t_weirdbug *x)
{
	object_post((t_object *) x, "bang!");
}

int main(void){
	t_class *c;
	c = class_new("weirdbug", (method)weirdbug_new, (method)weirdbug_free, sizeof(t_weirdbug), (method)NULL, A_GIMME, 0L);
	c->c_flags |= CLASS_FLAG_NEWDICTIONARY;
	jbox_initclass(c, 0);
	class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_paint, "paint", A_CANT, 0);
	class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_bang, "bang", 0);
	class_addmethod(c, (method) weirdbug_anything, "anything", A_GIMME, 0);
	s_weirdbug_class = c;
	class_register(CLASS_BOX, s_weirdbug_class);
	return 0;
}

void weirdbug_anything(t_weirdbug *x, t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv)
{
	object_post((t_object *) x, "anything!");
}

t_weirdbug* weirdbug_new(t_symbol *s, long argc, t_atom *argv)
{
	t_weirdbug* x = NULL;
	t_dictionary *d;
	long flags;

	if (!(d=object_dictionaryarg(argc,argv)))
		return NULL;

	jbox_new(&x->r_ob, flags, argc, argv);
	x->r_ob.b_firstin = (t_object*) x;
	attr_dictionary_process(x,d);
	jbox_ready(&x->r_ob);
	x->m_inlet = inlet_new(x, NULL);
	return x;
}

void weirdbug_paint(t_weirdbug *x, t_object *view)
{
}

void weirdbug_free(t_weirdbug *x)
{
	jbox_free((t_jbox *) x);
}
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a-very-weird-bug

ok, got it... I was calling jbox_ready before creating my extra inlet!

ok, got it... I was calling jbox_ready before creating my extra inlet!
sorry for the moment of panic...
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so it doesn't work on your machine either... sometimes things make sense!

a very weird bug