get started with the api (live.path / live.object, etc)

[Jean-Francois Charles]

Hi there,
Just want to mention that to get started with the api objects, I found Andrew Benson's story (http://www.cycling74.com/story/2009/7/14/1835/98517) to be the most accessible place. Examples are more basic than, for instance, the LiveAPI in M4L.Examples.
Best,
J-F

[Jean-Francois Charles]

Just reading this article again, and I think there might be a few things that have been updated since this preview. Most of the time, "set" should be now "live_set", I guess.
J-F

[k reverend]

thanks jean francois! just the sort of documentation i've been looking for

[Gregory Taylor]

Andrew's article was great, but there have been changes in the Live API
stuff since it was written. If you slavishly copy what you see instead
of looking at the material alongside the Live Object Model documentation,
stuff's not going to work.

This is from memory, but I think that you'd have to substitute
path live_set for every goto set you see, at the very least. I'm
sure there's other stuff - sit down with the article and the Live
Object Model and I'm sure you can puzzle it out.

[k reverend]

where can the Live Object Model documentation be found?

[Jean-Francois Charles]

In Max Help, if you search for "live object model", you don't find the right page, but you'll find the [live.object] ref page. From this page, then, there is a link to the "Live Object Model" reference page.
J-F

[LOFA]

Thank you very much for starting this thread.

[pukunui]

BTW, AB's article has been updated with the correct syntax now

-A

[LOFA]

BTW, AB's article has been updated with the correct syntax now

-A

Awesome. Thanks for the heads-up! That explains why everything in it seems to work