@VirtualVirgin said in Questions about handling persistent data in panels:

Why would the value I set for the panel onInit then not be available?

After on init completes the value is overwritten by whatever the last saved value was, since you only ever set the value in on init the last saved value - a value set after on init - will be undefined.

Try it with a slider, set it's value in on init, hit compile and you will see the slider ignores the value you've set.

@VirtualVirgin said in Questions about handling persistent data in panels:

Does it mean that it cannot save values that are set onInit and that all of the values that it will restore must be entered dynamically through callbacks after onInit?

Yes

See this old thread for more details and examples - https://forum.hise.audio/topic/52/variable-persistence?_=1740706214240

@d-healey Nope, it's the only namespace in the project and it was just to have some nice prefixes on the constants. It feels like something with variable hoisting but I'll check properly later.

@VirtualVirgin This one

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You might also simplify your code a little by using a helper function or two for your panel data management.

For example a generic function to set a property in your 3D array structure.

inline function setPanelData(panel, key, row, col, value) { panel.getValue()[key][row][col] = value; }

@d-healey
Good to know. Thank you @d-healey ! 😊

Slightly related, I've added an Object.keys function to the scripting API. Also works on arrays but will return an empty array in that case.

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/695?new_mergebox=false

@bendurso Global look and feel - https://docs.hise.dev/glossary/custom_lookandfeel.html#alert-windows

Might also be able to use CSS here, not sure - https://docs.hise.dev/glossary/css.html

@d-healey I did it, broadcaster was the right tool!

@d-healey @ustk Thanks, guys!!!!

@ustk said in Having trouble with syntax for settings a panel value:

@VirtualVirgin

chordPadsPSArrays[i][j] = [];

This is a 3d array since your store an array into an already 2D array

Sure, at that point the 2D array becomes a 3D array. I'm jest referring to it that way as the address is 2D (rows, columns in this example).

@d-healey said in How do I load a midi script programmatically?:

@Lindon said in How do I load a midi script programmatically?:

{PROJECTS}\mysub\yoursub\afile.ext

You don't need a slash after the wildcard, and if you use forward slashes only it will work on all systems. Don't know about the lopp player though.

yeah that might work for you but as I say its at the very least unreliable for me, it might be cases of paths without {PROJECT_FOLDER} in them

The root cause of this was actually this bug: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/12055/control-callback-does-not-fire-in-non-ui-script-when-value-is-updated-from-onnote?_=1740472879585

@Simon It works!!

@d-healey
Thanks a lot, some fresh ideas is really all I need 🙃

@thrice801 said in Issue with simply playing a file, and question about introspection:

@d-healey when I tried the trace function, it broke off execution and opened xcode (not familiar with xcode debugging), I can't tell if that is the expected behavior from that, or if it was trying to log some data as json unsuccessfully, and it is blowing up, and xcode is catching the error (the line it breaks on is something about json serialization) - is that the expected behavior of trace, or is it supposed to be putting info in my console? - also the variable watch table gave me slightly more info which is helpful, could see arrays of strings and what not, but still don't see any class names or object types and what not.

Thanks all I eventually got it figured out, and was able to get the file loaded in the AudioLoopPlayer. However I am now realizing, there is no play method on this thing. How do I actually go about triggering playback of the file, or what am I missing here?

I'm basically just trying to trigger playback of the sample now, when the daw transport play button is clicked, except I have no daw here. So I'm wondering, how do I actually play it back, and also: is there a way to simulate daw transport playback/controls directly within hise (and or setting tempo and things)?

just running it in the code editor, just using Console.print(trace(myObj));

-- any idea on the triggering playback of AudioLoopPlayer also, programatically? is that not possible, do I need to use a sampler and attach midi for playback or something?

@Giuseppe Also: ScriptSliderPack.getDataAsBuffer().

@Simon That's not that big. I don't know what the cause of the issue is, I don't use images very much in HISE so it could be you've run into some limitation.

@d-healey Nice workaround too :)

Depending on the use case, at least it's possible to scroll sliders with the mouse wheel. Using invisible sliders has a lot of potential