[flext] Max inlet shift-click?

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Jamie,
that's currently not supported since flext has it's own message dispatch
system to be compatible with Pd.
I have some changes in mind that could make flext more compatible to the
Max way, but to be honest i don't see when this can happen.
When attributes are enabled, you can dump methods and attributes by sending
the getmethods and getattributes messages to the leftmost inlet. Dump
output is spilled through the rightmost outlet.
gr~~~


2013/11/26 Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>

>
> Hi all,
>
> In Max you can get a list of messages that an object can receive by
> shift-clicking the inlet. This gives a contextual list of the form
> "Attributes: ... Messages: ... Actions: ..." I only just became aware of
> this, so I'm not sure how long it has been in Max. Certainly since Max 5.
>
> I'm guessing Flext externals create an auto-generated list of "accepted
> messages". However, what is generated isn't very helpful. For an "anything"
> inlet on a Flext external, shift-click gives me:
>
> anything [variable]
> bang
> float [float]
> ft1 [float]
> ...
> ft9 [float]
> in1 [int]
> ...
> in9 [int]
> list [variable]
>
>
>
> Is it possible to explicitly set this information, or at least override
> the default behaviour so the ft1-ft9 and in1-in9 aren't displayed?
>
> Also it would be good if attributes were listed, for example, Max's
> [print] object has:
>
> Attributes:
> popup [int] (val = 0)
>
> best,
>
> Jamie
>
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