Hi!

Just starting playing with Max 7. Some Cool Stuff!

I'm interested in using jit.playlist - because it's a better version of something I already built for a patch. One problem though: I want to use it as a playlist - when when one clip finishes, the next starts, then back to beginning when last clip finishes, etc. I realize I can do this with the "next" message connected to the playback notification outlet nicely, but there's a problem with this. Because there is no notification of user click, or no way to determine whether the video clip ended of its own accord vs. being stopped by user action (both just say "done # filename.mov"), when you click the play button on a clip that is not the next in line, jit.playlist goes spastic and just keeps triggering clips constantly as fast as possible. The only way to stop it is to disconnect the "next" message.

I also tried using the resulting clip number in the "done" message to trigger the next clip by number, but that exhibits the same problem.

Does anyone have a better way? It seems like a natural thing for an object like this to be able to do without having to worry about serious problems if i click the "wrong" button (which in many cases would be the button i'd want to click).

Maybe there is something i could do with ignoring data that comes in too fast, or using mousefilter or something, but it really should be easier than that :)

Through the years I've often found that these fancy UI objects in Max (like playbar, for instance) do 95% of what I want, but then don't allow the user to access some small essential piece of data which means i just can't use it and have to rebuild my own version. I hope hope hope hope jit.playlist won't be like that because it looks so useful!

Thanks!

example patch: