iehos

When Max patch/Standalone got a conflict error and shuts down suddenly,an alert message window pops up on the screen.

I'd like to close or hide the pop-up window automatically by AppleScript.

When Max patch/Standalone got a conflict error and shuts down suddenly,an alert message window pops up on the screen.
I'd like to close or hide the pop-up window automatically by AppleScript.
Is Max compliant with AppleScript?

applescript

You can control max with applescript, for example:

tell application "MaxMSP" to quit
end tell

executed from the script editor would close Max. You can also access the menus, move and click the mouse and trigger keypresses (although I think this requires a seperate toolkit, if memory serves it is called Extra Suites).

You can trigger scrips from inside max using [shell] which you can find 

. The format is slightly different because [shell] communicates with the terminal so you'd need to use something like:

osascript -e 'set desktopPath to POSIX path of (path to home folder) as string' -e 'return desktopPath'

to find the current user directory. You also need to be careful to escape "quotes" and ,commas, and any other reserved characters you may find yourself needing. You can also execute applescript files saved to disk from within max.

You can trigger scrips from inside max using [shell] which you can find here. The format is slightly different because [shell] communicates with the terminal so you'd need to use something like:

Thank you for your advice.
I'm gonna look over Extra Suites.
Thank you!!


iehos wrote on Wed, 24 June 2009 09:46When Max patch/Standalone got a conflict error and shuts down suddenly,an alert message window pops up on the screen.
I'd like to close or hide the pop-up window automatically by AppleScript.
Is Max compliant with AppleScript?

Some older topics about AppleScript:MAX and Applescriptapplescript pro needed
Etc.


When scripting UI elements with the "System Events", take care of menu items whose titles and numbers could have changed from older versions of any application including Max and the OS.

For example, the Finder's clipboard was before 'menu item 8' and it's 'menu item 9' in Leopard.

Attached, 3 examples in 1 patcher that displays the Clipboard from Max using the shell object, taking care of the Max tokenizers (or just called 'tokens').

iehos wrote on Fri, 26 June 2009 02:45Hi PhiDjee,
Thank you for your help.

You're welcome!
When scripting UI elements with the "System Events", take care of menu items whose titles and numbers could have changed from older versions of any application including Max and the OS.
For example, the Finder's clipboard was before 'menu item 8' and it's 'menu item 9' in Leopard.
Attached, 3 examples in 1 patcher that displays the Clipboard from Max using the shell object, taking care of the Max tokenizers (or just called 'tokens').


Thank you very much for the patch you attaced.

Hi OhiDjee,
Thank you very much for the patch you attaced.
I'm gonna take look inside.

Phidjee or iehos, can you please upload the patch again?

Here what I found in my archives, two patchers you can start with.

Here what I found in my archives, two patchers you can start with.
HTH,
Phi-G
