can't address objects in tabs with the command prompt/shell

[jamesb93]

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As the title suggests you cannot address objects within tabs with the shell (Shift + R). It fails silently, on any object embedded into a tab but works with sub patchers to an arbitrary degree. Is this perhaps something broken on cyclings end for traversing patchers that are tabbed?

[tmhglnd]

I have looked into this and as far as I can tell the problem is that when opening a subpatcher in seperate window view max.frontpatcher returns the actual subpatcher instance. But when working with tabs the frontpatcher stays the parent patcher. So I guess this is indeed a "bug" in the scripting api. There is an option to traverse all subpatchers and collect all select by using:

max.frontpatcher.applydeep(applycollect)

but this will result in a new bug, because if you have objects selected in both parent patcher and subpatcher it will connect them all.

Here objects were connect when in tab view, then opened seperately to show the problem side by side

[natcl]

I remember this being a problem when the tabs feature got out, I reported it but it never got fixed :/

[jamesb93]

Ah that's a shame. I did have a dig with @tmhglnd's solution but hit the same wall. Maybe one day it will be fixed

[tmhglnd]

You could file a new bug-report since they are currently busy with the 8.2 beta fixing a lot of bugs.