mattyo

I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom appearance, 

and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here. All the values 

prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work fine (postion, nin 

& max values, etc.) but none of the appearance-related attributes 

change. Am I doing something completely boneheaded, or are appearance 

this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",

"@textcolor" , 0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,

"@bgcolor" , 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,

I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom appearance,  
and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here.  All the values  
prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work fine (postion, nin  
& max values, etc.) but none of the appearance-related attributes  
change.  Am I doing something completely boneheaded, or are appearance  
attributes handled differently?

this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",
"@varname", i + "_volbox",
"@patching_rect", 280, 400, 130, 20,
"@maximum", 0.0,
"@minimum" , -90.,
"@bordercolor" , 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
"@textcolor" ,  0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,
"@fontface", 1,
"@triangle" , 0,
"@fontsize" , 12.0,
"@bgcolor" ,  0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,
);


setting-attributes-using-newobject

> I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom 

> appearance, and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here. All 

> the values prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work fine 

> (postion, nin & max values, etc.) but none of the appearance-related 

> attributes change. Am I doing something completely boneheaded, or 

> are appearance attributes handled differently?

> this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",

> "@textcolor" , 0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,

> "@bgcolor" , 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,

This is working fine here (after removing the extra coma at the end). 

blue text flonum, without triangle, and almost half transparent white 

> I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom  
> appearance, and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here.  All  
> the values prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work fine  
> (postion, nin & max values, etc.) but none of the appearance-related  
> attributes change.  Am I doing something completely boneheaded, or  
> are appearance attributes handled differently?
>
> M
>
>
> this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",
> "@varname", i + "_volbox",
> "@patching_rect", 280, 400, 130, 20,
> "@maximum", 0.0,
> "@minimum" , -90.,
> "@bordercolor" , 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
> "@textcolor" ,  0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,
> "@fontface", 1,
> "@triangle" , 0,
> "@fontsize" , 12.0,
> "@bgcolor" ,  0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,
> );

This is working fine here (after removing the extra coma at the end).  
blue text flonum, without triangle, and almost half transparent white  
background as expected.

I think I had accidentally put the js out of the searchpath, and it 

was not recompiling properly -- it all seems fine now.

But while I'm on the topic, let me ask this: I'm trying to create a 

bunch of messageboxes with a different index in each, so that they 

would appear as [set 0 $1] [set 1 $1] etc, using an incrementing index 

in the js to get the changing value. However, you can't format that 

using the @text attribute, as the middle value is a variable, and

or any of several variants doesn't work. I've run around it by 

creating the object first with the @text attribute set to "set" & 

var mess = this.patcher.getnamed( v + "_index");

but I feel it lacks style. is there a better way?

On Jun 3, 2008, at 17:36, Emmanuel Jourdan wrote:

>> I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom 

>> appearance, and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here. 

>> All the values prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work 

>> fine (postion, nin & max values, etc.) but none of the appearance- 

>> related attributes change. Am I doing something completely 

>> boneheaded, or are appearance attributes handled differently?

>> this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",

>> "@textcolor" , 0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,

>> "@bgcolor" , 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,

> This is working fine here (after removing the extra coma at the 

> end). blue text flonum, without triangle, and almost half 

> transparent white background as expected.

I think I had accidentally put the js out of the searchpath, and it  
was not recompiling properly -- it all seems fine now.

But while I'm on the topic, let me ask this:  I'm trying to create a  
bunch of messageboxes with a different index in each, so that they  
would appear as [set 0 $1] [set 1 $1] etc, using an incrementing index  
in the js to get the changing value.  However, you can't format that  
using the @text attribute, as the middle value is a variable, and

or any of several variants doesn't work.  I've run around it by  
creating the object first with the @text attribute set to "set"  &  
then doing this:

var mess = this.patcher.getnamed( v + "_index");
mess.message("append", v);
mess.message("append", "$1");

but I feel it lacks style.  is there a better way?

> On 3 juin 08, at 20:37, mattyo wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to create a bunch of number boxes with a custom  
>> appearance, and I cant' quite figure out what I'm missing here.   
>> All the values prior to my setting the bordercolor attribute work  
>> fine (postion, nin & max values, etc.) but none of the appearance- 
>> related attributes change.  Am I doing something completely  
>> boneheaded, or are appearance attributes handled differently?
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>> this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "flonum",
>> "@varname", i + "_volbox",
>> "@patching_rect", 280, 400, 130, 20,
>> "@maximum", 0.0,
>> "@minimum" , -90.,
>> "@bordercolor" , 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
>> "@textcolor" ,  0.031373, 0.160784, 0.466667, 1.0 ,
>> "@fontface", 1,
>> "@triangle" , 0,
>> "@fontsize" , 12.0,
>> "@bgcolor" ,  0.94902, 0.94902, 0.94902, 0.509804 ,
>> );
>
> This is working fine here (after removing the extra coma at the  
> end). blue text flonum, without triangle, and almost half  
> transparent white background as expected.
>
> ej
>
>


> I think I had accidentally put the js out of the searchpath, and it 

> was not recompiling properly -- it all seems fine now.

> But while I'm on the topic, let me ask this: I'm trying to create a 

> bunch of messageboxes with a different index in each, so that they 

> would appear as [set 0 $1] [set 1 $1] etc, using an incrementing 

> index in the js to get the changing value. However, you can't 

> format that using the @text attribute, as the middle value is a 

Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v + " $1"?

> I think I had accidentally put the js out of the searchpath, and it  
> was not recompiling properly -- it all seems fine now.
>
> But while I'm on the topic, let me ask this:  I'm trying to create a  
> bunch of messageboxes with a different index in each, so that they  
> would appear as [set 0 $1] [set 1 $1] etc, using an incrementing  
> index in the js to get the changing value.  However, you can't  
> format that using the @text attribute, as the middle value is a  
> variable, and
>
> @text "set", v, "$1"

Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v  + " $1"?

> Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v + " $1"?

Yes, I got message boxes containing only the symbol "set"

>>
>>
>
> Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v  + " $1"?

Yes, I got message boxes containing only the symbol "set"


I stand corrected -- don't make assumptions about yesterday's code pre- 

I was using commas instead of pluses, which was not happening, but 

>> Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v + " $1"?

> Yes, I got message boxes containing only the symbol "set"

I stand corrected -- don't make assumptions about yesterday's code pre- 
coffee....

I was using commas instead of pluses, which was not happening, but  
this works perfectly.  Thanks very much.

>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Did you try ... "@text", "set " + v  + " $1"?
>
>
> Yes, I got message boxes containing only the symbol "set"


    this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "message",

                            "@patching_rect", 10, 10, 130, 20,

                            "@presentation", 1,

                            "@text", "set " + i + " $1"

                            );

	var i = 12;
	this.patcher.message("script", "newobject", "message",
							"@patching_rect", 10, 10, 130, 20,
							"@presentation", 1,
							"@text", "set " + i + " $1"
							);

> I was using commas instead of pluses, which was not happening, but 

> this works perfectly. Thanks very much.

Right, you need the plus to use the string concatenation mechanism of 

JavaScript, and pass only one string as argument for the "@text" 

There's a few examples like that in the "Re-purposing Plug-ins in Max 

> I was using commas instead of pluses, which was not happening, but  
> this works perfectly.  Thanks very much.

Right, you need the plus to use the string concatenation mechanism of  
JavaScript, and pass only one string as argument for the "@text"  
attribute. I'm glad it works.

There's a few examples like that in the "Re-purposing Plug-ins in Max  
5" tutorial on the website.

Setting attributes using newobject()