[ftm-devel] getting references & editor attributes

[Alexander D. <ale...@go...>]

Hi everyone,

in a previous mail the ways of getting a ref of a fts objectto a c 
external were already named.
- sending them in a message to your external
- giving them as arguments (like $myfmat $yourfmat) of your external
- obtaining them from the current "FTM scope"

Now I'd like to know how one of these ways can be realised in detail.

To give some background information:The patches where I would like to 
get the refs contain a static constellation of objects.
All of these patches containa ref collector-object which collectsthe 
references of the objects needed.
At the moment this ref collection is limited to standart max typeswhich 
I get through iteration in the patch identifying them by scripting name.
This iteration isdone with a standart (non-ftm) max external but my 
xcode project is succesfully linked against theftm-sdk2.6 so if needed i 
could switch that.

Since all required objects are in the same patcher maybe "FTM scope" 
sounds like a good option
or would it be a lot easier to build the external as a ftm external and 
give them as arguments?

In detail I need refs to fmats, mats and ftm.messages, ftm.editors.
Can the last two also be obtained through iteration and scripting name 
or is it advisable to do itanother way?

With ftm.message I only would like to be able to set the 
string/symbol.(like it can be done in max with #set xy)
So the plan is to get the pointer and then send the "#set" message to 
the ftm.message object.
Getting a pointer to an editor I hope it is possible to get, set values 
of attributes, namely: (choose view) interface, (view shape) shape.
Can it be done like with standart max objectswith s.th like: 
object_attr_getvalueof, object_attr_setvalueof ?
What is not essentially required but would come in handy would be to set 
the track refs in an editor from an external. Is that possible?

Ok, that's a lot of questions. Maybe someone can put some light into this.

Greetings,
Alex