Georg Hajdu

Is there a JavaScript method capable of querying the active state of a parent patcher? Say, I have a bpatcher and want to know whether its patcher window is frontmost, but don't want to create an active object in the parent patcher.

active-state

No offense, but this sounds like poor encapsulation to me. Why not let the bpatcher support an active message and let users issue it from the parent patcher?

I had the Max for Idiots kind of person in mind. That's why...

Actually, there was a time when there was no JavaScript at all, and my patches were all running just fine...

I had the Max for Idiots kind of person in mind. That's why... 

Try checking the current filepath against the frontmost filepath as shown below.

max.frontpatcher.filepath == this.patcher.filepath
