Undocumented textjustification syntax

    Radio Wonderland
    Jul 04 2013 | 12:24 am
    Stop me if you've heard this before. I stumbled on it while fiddling with attrui, trying to figure out why my scripting failed.
    Dig it: textjustification attribute values "left", "center" & "right" must be sent as "0", "1" & "2" respectively.
    Try it with textedit, message box or comment:
    Sending
    "textjustification 1"
    centers text. Sending
    "textjustification center"
    doesn't.
    This also seems to go for sendbox messages, script sendbox messages to thispatcher, and the corresponding javascript for all of the above.
    Max 6.1.3 Mountain Lion
    • seejayjames
      Jul 04 2013 | 2:19 am
      whoa, center-justified message and comment boxes? I've wanted those for ages...!
      gotta try it out...
    • Emmanuel Jourdan
      Jul 04 2013 | 2:47 pm
      Yes, this is new to Max 6.1.3.
      @radio wonderland: this is the expected behavior, textjustification takes an int as argument.
    • Radio Wonderland
      Jul 04 2013 | 3:35 pm
      Yes, it's there if you look at attrui, but nowhere in the documentation as far as I can tell. So is attrui a better guide than the reference pages?
    • Emmanuel Jourdan
      Jul 06 2013 | 6:23 am
      The reference says the argument is an int. Although it would be nicer if you would see the numbers... Request noted.
    • Radio Wonderland
      Jul 06 2013 | 1:10 pm
      Whaat? Imposs--
      Oh. What was I looking at? I don't know. Maybe some examples. Oops.
      While I have you on the phone? This also stumps me, in scripting objects--why function-like syntax assigns values to attributes, but in at least one case that fails and assignment-like syntax works instead. (I sort of intuitively get it, but I don't really understand.)
      tempObj.presentation(1); //right syntax tempObj.bgcolor(1, 1, 1, 0.25); //right syntax tempObj.readonly(1); //right syntax tempObj.fontname("Helvetica"); //right syntax tempObj.fontsize(96); //right syntax tempObj.patching_rect(coords); //right syntax tempObj.varname(name_it); //wrong syntax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tempObj.varname = name_it; //right syntax
      But there are more important things. Like polybuffer~ .