Another_Guy

Im looking for a way for MAX to send keyboard commands

i.e. when a message is banged it will "press" the Ctrl key.

Im looking for a way for MAX to send keyboard commands
i.e. when a message is banged it will "press" the Ctrl key.

keyboard-commands

What are you trying to send the key down/up command to do?

You could do this with menu commands using applescript and the [shell] external (you can find it in the toolbox pages) or alternatively you could use the autobot java class (search the forum, it's been linked to quite a bit) and probably the most simple method: you could use the locked property of the patcher object in javascript using the [js] object.

I have never used Javascript! but I suppose now is as good a time to learn...

I'll save you the work, here's a little abstraction I use for the same thing, with a helpfile too:

post("lh.editmode.js: doesn't understand ""+messagename+""n");

function bang() {
    outlet(0,this.patcher.locked);
}

function lock(x) {
    this.patcher.locked = x;
    bang();
}

function anything() {
    post("lh.editmode.js: doesn't understand ""+messagename+""n");
}

Do you have any other basic/intros to Java script?

Thank you that is so helpfull!
Do you have any other basic/intros to Java script?


Keyboard commands