Robin Parmar

When I first load a Max patcher that uses Jitter, I get errors regarding Quicktime not being installed, though it is in fact working perfectly. An lcd panel does not initialise properly, although I have a loadbang set up to do this. If I manually trigger the exact same routine, with a bang, then all is fine.

What gives? How can I ensure my patcher initialises correctly?

Jitter requires Quicktime to be installed to run.

Jitter initialised.
Quicktime not installed.
Jitter requires Quicktime to be installed to run.

strange-report-of-missing-quicktime-and-bad-lcd-initialisation

I have hacked a solution but the spurious error is still worrying.

It turns out that these do not in fact change the look of the lcd until I send:

With all of these triggered from a loadbang, the lcd initialises in the colour I desire.

I have hacked a solution but the spurious error is still worrying. 

As input to the lcd I had two messages:
brgb 100 100 100
clear

It turns out that these do not in fact change the look of the lcd until I send:
bang

With all of these triggered from a loadbang, the lcd initialises in the colour I desire.


hey, are we talking about [lcd] or [jit.lcd]? ]jit.lcd] always needs a bang after every message, i think you want to use [lcd].

Sorry, my bad. Yes, I was using jit.lcd. That problem solved. It would be nice, however, if there was more complete documentation. Big advances in Max 6 but still many black holes.

Besides this, I still wonder about spurious error messages.

Strange report of missing Quicktime and bad lcd initialisation