js - scripting start for beginners

[squallu]

Hi everyone,
I have a really noobish problem. Could you tell me how to start writing js for Live8 / Max? I have created a patch that gets names of all tracks in a set, gets title of currently selected track and also it is possible to select track you want to use. My problem is: what should I do to create, write and run the script? It escaped my notice. I want to convert my patch to a js and post (cpost?) all information (that are printed to Max main window) to a console window.

- I have installed Ableton Live Suite 8 and Max 5 and pyhon 2.5.1
- I copied LiveOSC to

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C:\Program Files\Ableton\Live x.x.x\Resources\MIDI Remote\Scripts (x.x.x - current version number)

- I've changed Midi Sync Control Surface to LiveOSC


And what now?

Let say I have written already a script (e.g. pukunui's http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... ava+script ). What should I do next? Should I put this js somewhere? how can I run it? Is it possible to run it directly from cmd by "cscript myscript.js" command or perhaps the only way to use the script is creating a device that runs/use it?

[squallu]

Hi everyone,

I’m working with an Ableton Live Suite 8, Max for live and javascript for a few days. The main idea of my project is to send from Ableton Live tracks titles with list of clip names and the actual playing clip (name) to a web page. All the work should be done in JS but at the beginning Max can do everything in large part. I have made a patcher that gets track titles and names of theirs clips after sending a bang message to it.

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----------begin_max5_patcher----------
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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------

First problem is that I don’t know how to send info dynamically to this patcher (that is way there is such a crown on the top ) so I won’t have to send a bang manually (It will be necessary to check if a DJ triggered next clip).

Second thing is sending a name of this triggered clip (and everything else from Max window) out of Live / Max to a web site or just to a console using java script. Do you know any way how this should be done? I have seen messages like

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;
max launchbrowser http://stackoverflow.com

but haven’t seen anything about console or web

Best regards Maciej

P.S. WScript.Echo() in js doesn’t work