Please remember that some users have NO examples because we cannot actually try the application. There is no Demo for Live Suite owners.The large number of Live API examples that *are* included with Max for Live appear to represent an attempt to take those things into account. Perhaps the effect of doing that frightens off the programming-averse?
My information on M4L is very out of date as it dates from my experience on the beta (which is now a little foggy in my memory). Examples only appeared in the final week of the beta.
During the Beta I had to learn enough Max to figure out how to query the API to surrender a list of class names, methods and properties. Getting to that point was quite some while after "hello world" it had all the fun of walking to Greece to see if there was a golden fleece there. I spend all day writing code, so in the evenings I'd prefer a little more user-friendliness. A little bit more WYSIWYG is just fine by me.
Please do not assume that customers are merely lazy, we are mainly pressed for time and overburdened with demands by multiple applications all claiming to be the UltimateCreativeSolution™. I quite like examples as carrots. I like helper objects, I like easiness.
My need is not "learn a programming language"
my need is "customise my music making, to make it easier to be creative"
During the Beta I had to learn enough Max to be able to write my own API crawler to try and find out if it could possibly do what I wanted it to. I would have preferred to see something like this object. LiveGET, along with a LiveSET
a dynamic select box object which accessed the API for me, reported the values so I could modulate them and then send them to a LiveSET() object
perhaps this sort of thing already (now) exists.
It's a very expensive gamble to make to try and find out.
Examples do not have to be all singing all dancing, just helpful and indicative.
