@ospfeigrp Was that the final answer on this one?

@prehm there's been a few posts floating around on the topic of panels lately. Hypothetically the panel can store both UI and control data. In practice, for control data, it is best to use another component and reflect UI changes in the panel. So in your case, maybe try using a hidden knob for your four-button state, and using mousecallbacks and a paint routine on the panel to interact with and change the state of the knob.

You could bypass the knob altogether, I sometimes find issues with it when trying load presets or initialize the project. Really depends on what you are trying to do though.

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/11797/saveinpreset-not-working-for-panel-data/7?_=1741176180193

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/12016/is-panel-data-persistent

Thanks so much, that's very helpful, I appreciate it!

@d-healey said in Dynamic creation of components?:

@VirtualVirgin At the moment I think the only dynamic components you can add are child panels. Christoph is working on a dynamic container but I don't think it's ready yet.

Thank you :)

I looked into the child panels and made this snippet:

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It creates and destroys the child panels dynamically from the buttons:
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The child panels are not saved in the component list and will not be remembered on compile,
so I created a method of restoring the panels by using persistent data in another panel.
At this point it just recreates the amount of panels that were there last time, but I would like to be able to recall and restore more complex data from the panels.
A drawback here is that the child panels do not accept "Component.setPropertiesFromJSON" because the child components do not have a name.

@d-healey I want to set the pitch randomly for each note, but I think I've got it now!

@d-healey said in Issue with working with global scripts/recompiling after fixing errors:

@thrice801 All included files should be available from the little drop down at the top of the script editor in which they are included.

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ahh ok I see thank you! been meaning to subscribe to your patreon gonna do that now

@VirtualVirgin said in How many times is the onControl callback supposed to be triggered on compile?:

The "Component List"?

Yea

@d-healey said in How to programmatically change table viewport component values?:

Any way to have the buttons off by default

This is possible when setting the table row data

local listData = []; for (x in data) { local obj = { CheckButton: 0, // Here I can set the button state Name: x.name }; listData.push(obj); } viewport.setTableRowData(listData);

Haha dirty indeed. But it works!

I don't know why but the mouseDownX and mouseDownY values I get when clicking on the panel are always huge. So I'm using an X that's higher than my object width to trigger that? Idk man... haha

if (event.mouseDownX > 26) { //click on panel //first click shows menu, second hides menu } if (!event.hover && !event.mouseDownX) { //click off of panel that also hides menu }

@d-healey I seeeee! I'll start doing it like this. I've been using if statements alot because im comfortable but I can see that I may be complicating things in some situations. Thanks Dave.

@Chazrox its an AudioWaveform component, not using FloatingTile option to be precise.

@d-healey Done!

@Matt_SF it's a fairly recent addition

@d-healey makes more sense now thanks!

@d-healey got it! thanks

@rglides Thanks. This is super dope too.

@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 ! 😊