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Max4Live: Javascript Template

Template with a log function that is more userful than the post function (last update: 2025-01-18)
Based on code from uncle-javascript.com.

(If you have already been here and used the code below, there were errors. The mathematical < sign was interpreted as an HTML tag and the browser swallowed some characters. The HTML code tag around the code does not prevent this as I thought.
Also logging an object may have Live crashed.
It should work now.)

autowatch = 1; inlets = 1; outlets = 1; var debug = true; /* your code */ // Utilities function log() { if(typeof(debug) != "boolean" || (typeof(debug) == "boolean" && debug === true)) { var tab; if(log.caller.name == "log") { tab = " "; } else { post(" \nlog called from '" + log.caller.name + "':\n"); tab = ""; } for(var i = 0, len = arguments.length; i < len; i++) { var message = arguments[i]; if(typeof(message) != "object") { if(message && message.toString) { var s = message.toString(); if(s.indexOf("[object ") >= 0) { s = JSON.stringify(message); } post(tab + s); } else if(message === null) { post(tab + "<null>"); } else { post(tab + message); } } else { post(tab + "[Object]", "\n"); for(var prop in message) { if(typeof(message[prop]) != "object") { post(tab + "key: " + prop + ", value: " + message[prop], "\n"); } else { post(tab + "--- key: " + prop, "\n"); log(message[prop]); } } } } post("\n"); } }