Custom Export/Import of UserPresets

johnmike

is there a way to create a custom preset export/import system...the goal would be to export specific folder or folders from the user presets folder and then import those presets into another system...use case say I create a preset or set of presets on my plugin on my MacBook but I want to import those specific presets into the same plugin on my Mac Studio...using the "Export Presets As A Collection" option exports/imports everything not ideal having to write/overwrite presets in the folder each time in case I have tweaked the built in presets already...and plus I don't want end users having to poke around in the app data folders...just a simple click of a Export/Import preset button...possible?

d.healey

@johnmike you could create your own using the file and file system APIs

johnmike

@d-healey thanks...dug around and was able to find a couple of other examples that I kinda reverse engineered to basically just copy a user selected folder from the file system to userpresets folder...

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d.healey

@johnmike Nice!

A few suggestions

Use var inside your function rather than reg - Use local if it's an inline function.

This variable isn't needed activeImportComponent

You can just use the button reference you already have

Avoid magic numbers:

Replace

importFolder.toString(0);  // 0 = FullPath internally

With

importFolder.toString(importFolder.FullPath);  // No need for a comment, it's self-documenting :)

Or instead of getting the full path you could just get the folder name, which is all you need.

You can find a list of the available options here - https://docs.hise.audio/scripting/scripting-api/file/index.html#tostring

johnmike

@d-healey ahhhh really cool! Makes sense and definitely cleaner!

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