I’m trying to wrap my head around how to do autofocus in Max without prefixes.
If I have 2 instances of serialosc.maxpat (1 in patch A, another in patch B), selecting my grid in sosc A, and then selecting the same grid in sosc B deselects the grid in sosc A and mutes its first output. That’s great, cause now patch A is no longer receiving any commands from my grid. I can also use the 1 generated by the 2nd outlet when I get focus to turn on drawing for patch B.
However, sosc A’s input 1 is still receiving osc at this point, which is still drawing to my grid. The docs in the serialosc dev tools patch suggest I should be gating those messages when sosc A loses focus, but it’s not clear to me how I detect that event. Should I be creating some kind of larger communication between my patches that sends out the currently active port? Am I missing something about how serialosc.maxpat is supposed to work?
I’m barely literate in Max, but looking at the Terms devices, it seemed like they were doing their thing by changing the sys prefix. That’s not the suggested architecture moving forward right? In practical terms, I’m just trying to make small Max 4 Live devices that play nice with everybody else when it comes to autofocus without having to prefix each one differently. Thanks!
