GRID HELPER || Free Script

[Chazrox]

If you're like me and just need an extra visual helper, you might find this useful.

Drop a panel in your project and name it "Grid1".

namespace GridHelper
{
	const var Grid1 = Content.getComponent("Grid1");
	
	Grid1.setPaintRoutine(function(g) 
	{
		drawPandelGrid();
	});
	
	inline function drawPandelGrid()
	{
		local a = this.getLocalBounds(0);
		
		// Size Controls
		local NumBarsX = 10; // Number of Vertical Lines
		local NumBarsY = 10; // Number of Horizontal Lines
		local BarHeight = 1; // Horizontal Bar Size
		local BarWidth = 1; // Vertical Bar Size
		
		// Colour Controls
		local BarColour = Colours.withAlpha(Colours.black, 0.5); // Bar Colour
		local BackgroundColour = Colours.withAlpha(Colours.pink, 0.5); // Optional Background Colour
		
		// Spacer Logic
		local spacerY = a[3]/NumBarsY; // Horizontal Line Spacing
		local spacerX = a[2]/NumBarsX; // Vertical Line Spacing
		
		// Paint Background		
		g.fillAll(BackgroundColour); // Optional Background Colour
		g.setFont("ArialBOLD", 12);
		g.drawAlignedText("GRIDHELPER1.0", [5,5,100,5], "left");
	
		// Paint Lines
		for (i=0;i<=NumBarsX;i++) // Vertical Lines
		{					
			local x = i * spacerX - (BarWidth/2); // Center Line ON grid
			
			g.setColour(BarColour);
			g.fillRect([x,0,BarWidth,a[3]]);	
		}
		for (i=0;i<=NumBarsY;i++) // Horizontal Lines
		{			
			local y = i * spacerY - (BarHeight/2); // Center Line ON grid
					
			g.setColour(BarColour);
			g.fillRect([0,y,a[2],BarHeight]);
		}
	}
}

Its a snippet from @Morphoice that I modified to have both horizontal and vertical lines, made it modular with the all the controls variables and customizable so you can set a different amount of x or y bars/lines. Comes in handy sometimes when I just want to visualize a certain part of my plugin and make sure its equally spaced to my desired paramaters.

(idk if something like this exists already but I thought it was good excercise regardless). Bless!

[d.healey]

@Chazrox said in GRID HELPER || Free Script:

idk if something like this exists already but I thought it was good excercise regardless

Try incorporating this https://docs.hise.audio/scripting/scripting-api/content/index.html#addvisualguide

[Chazrox]

@d-healey ah. Nice. I'll try that too.