initialising live.tab tabs?

[sacredgeometry]

I cant seem to figure out how to setup live.tabs programatically in max/msp.

Basically I am wanting to populate a live.tab object with the instrument names that are currently inside an instrument rack. In the reference "setsymbol" looks like it should do the trick but when I send the live.tab set list of strings/symbols it does nothing.

Can anyone show me where I am being stupid please

[broc]

The item names of live.tab cannot be set programmatically. With setsymbol you can only select (display) an item by its name, eg. 'setsymbol two'. So the argument of setsymbol must be a symbol, not a list. I think the reference is misleading at this point.

[sacredgeometry]

Ahh bugger, oh well I will have to standardise the effects rack in that case. Thanks for getting back to me.