I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on using the SDK to create a window outside of Max? I need to be able to send values to it from Max, not necessarily the other way around (although if I could do both that would be great too). I mainly just want to be able to have a window I can look at for debugging and the like which will not disappear when Max crashes.
anything you create with sdk wiil be gone on a max crash
so you need to create a standalone mini-app, and do some interprocess communication
easiest way is to send some user defined messages to your debug window
if you want to send more complex data to your debug window, use shared memory for that
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366551(v=vs.85).aspx
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