On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On page 32 of this document: http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/read/WritingMax_MSPExternals.pdf You can see the 'assist' message. The Max GUI sends the 'assist' message to an objectclass when you hover above an inlet or outlet,
It's sent to the object, not to the objectclass.
It's similar to the "dsp" method in that it's a special method-entry registered with A_CANT, but otherwise it's the same : it's registered in the objectclass so that it's callable in the object. It's just not available from Max itself, as A_CANT means that its input is not a Max message.
I don't know anything about Max, but Max's addmess looks the same as Pd's class_addmethod, and A_CANT is exactly the same, and so are many other things when I browse around in that manual.
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