Guillaume Evrard

max java classes provide a lot of method to manipulate max objects in a patcher.

when i try to create an object from my mxj -constructor-, with code lines looking like this :

p.newDefault(20,20,"dial",new Atom[]{Atom.newAtom("")});

it seems the constructor is called about 590 times to instanciate only one mxj object (only when i try to construct objects in the constructor, when it's done in another method, there's no problem, excepted when this method is called from the constructor)

that's strange, is anybody has already faced this kind of problem?

hello,
max java classes provide a lot of method to manipulate max objects in a patcher.
when i try to create an object from my mxj -constructor-, with code lines looking like this :

p = this.getParentPatcher();
p.newDefault(20,20,"dial",new Atom[]{Atom.newAtom("")});

it creates about 590 dial objects !!!
it seems the constructor is called about 590 times to instanciate only one mxj object (only when i try to construct objects in the constructor, when it's done in another method, there's no problem, excepted when this method is called from the constructor)
that's strange, is anybody has already faced this kind of problem?

import com.cycling74.max.MaxObject;
import com.cycling74.max.MaxPatcher;
import com.cycling74.max.Atom;

    /** Creates a new instance of objc */
    public objc() {
        p = this.getParentPatcher();
        p.newDefault(20,20,"dial",new Atom[]{Atom.newAtom("")});
        //doit();
    }

    public void doit(){
        p.newDefault(20,20,"dial",new Atom[]{Atom.newAtom("")});
    }

creating-objects-from-java

On Jan 3, 2007, at 3:12 AM, guillaume wrote:

> it seems the constructor is called about 590 times to instanciate 

> only one mxj object (only when i try to construct objects in the 

> constructor, when it's done in another method, there's no problem, 

> excepted when this method is called from the constructor)

> that's strange, is anybody has already faced this kind of problem?

It is strictly forbidden to manipulate the patcher inside your 

constructor, as I believe is documented in the mxj documentation. You 

must wait until the patcher has finished loading, which can be 

accomplished by defining a loadbang() method.

> it seems the constructor is called about 590 times to instanciate  
> only one mxj object (only when i try to construct objects in the  
> constructor, when it's done in another method, there's no problem,  
> excepted when this method is called from the constructor)
> that's strange, is anybody has already faced this kind of problem?

It is strictly forbidden to manipulate the patcher inside your  
constructor, as I believe is documented in the mxj documentation. You  
must wait until the patcher has finished loading, which can be  
accomplished by defining a loadbang() method.

another problem about creating objects, the "newDefault" method always fails with "toggle" as max class name...(just replace "dial" for "toggle" in the class i posted)

thanks.
another problem about creating objects, the "newDefault" method always fails with "toggle" as max class name...(just replace "dial"  for "toggle" in the class i posted)
any idea ?

Creating objects from java