I am writing a Max MSP external.
I am lost in Max C API documentation since hours and couldn't find a way to get the name of a coll object from Max C API.
https://cycling74.com/sdk/max-sdk-8.0.3/html/index.html
If the object is | coll foo | , foo is the symbol I want to get.
I am able to iterate over a patcher and get pointers to all boxes and then to objects by calling jbox_get_object() with pointers to boxes. I tried getting many attributes of the objects I got and everything works ok.
I can't seem to find where the data I want to get is stored and what is it called.
I would appreciate some help.
Thank you.
[coll] is very sparsely documented, you should ask on the Cycling74 dev-forum. Below is what I do in [posit] after traversing the patcher to find a coll’s box. hth /*j
#include “coll.h”
<snip>
t_object *o;
t_coll *collob;
t_object *jb;
t_symbol *collname;
<snip>
o = jbox_get_object(jb);
collob = (t_coll *)o;
collname = (t_symbol *)collob->c_x->c_sym;
</snip>