Creating objects from the file browser

• Click on an object file in the file browser and drag into any empty space in an unlocked patcher window. You’ll see a translucent copy of the row from the file browser appear in the window when you drag the file into it.
  When you release your mouse, a instance of the object will appear in the patcher.

Creating media players for files in the file browser

• Click on a media file an image file, an audio file, or a movie file in the File Browser browser display area and drag into any white space in an unlocked Patcher Window. You’ll see a translucent copy of the row from the File Browser appear in the unlocked patcher window when you drag your cursor into it.
  When you release your mouse, an object will be created that can play the selected file. An audio file will create a playlist~ object, an image file will create an fpic object, and a movie file will create a jit.playlist object.

Holding down the Option key (Macintosh) or Alt key (Windows) while dragging will show a pop-up menu. Although the contents of the menu will vary depending on what type of media file you choose, you are basically presented with the choice of instantiating a Max object that loads the media file, or creating a message box with the necessary message to load the file into another object.

Loading movies from the file browser

• Click on a movie file in the file browser and drag onto any jit.movie object in a patcher window. You’ll see a translucent copy of the row from the File Browser appear in the unlocked patcher window when you drag your cursor into it.
  When you release your mouse, the movie will be read into the jit.movie just as if you had used the read message.

Loading audio files into MSP objects from the file browser

• Click on an audio file in the file browser and drag onto any buffer~, playlist~, waveform~, or sfplay~ object in a locked or unlocked Patcher Window. You’ll see a translucent copy of the row from the File Browser appear in the unlocked patcher window when you drag your cursor into it.
  When you release the mouse button, the audio file will be read into the object as if you had used a message to load it.

Holding down the option key (Mac) or control key (Windows) while dragging will show a pop-up menu. You can choose to create a message box with the necessary message to load the file, or to instantiate a playlist~, buffer~ or sfplay~ object that loads the media file.

Loading image files from the file browser

• Click on an image file in the file browser and drag onto any fpic or jit.movie object in a Patcher Window. You’ll see a translucent copy of the row from the File Browser appear in the unlocked patcher window when you drag your cursor into it.
  When you release the mouse button, the image file will be read into a the fpic or jit.movie object as if you had used the read message.

Loading a patcher into a bpatcher from the file browser

• Click on the name of a patcher file in the file browser area and drag onto any bpatcher object in an unlocked patcher window. When you release the mouse button, the patcher file will be loaded into the bpatcher object, or will replace any patcher file currently loaded.