How to automate radio buttons as a single control?

[dannytaurus]

My plugin has 3 radio buttons to choose LFO waveform. Works great in the UI but I'm trying to figure out how to automate it.

Logic's Test Tone plugin has a similar situation, where it's a set of radio buttons to select the waveform in the UI but you automate it with a single stepped range called Waveform.

The only way I can think of doing this is with a hidden slider, used for automation only, that sets both the waveform in the LFO module and the state of the UI visible radio buttons.

Or is there a better way?

[David Healey]

@dannytaurus said in How to automate radio buttons as a single control?:

The only way I can think of doing this is with a hidden slider, used for automation only,

That was my first thought too.

[Lindon]

@David-Healey said in How to automate radio buttons as a single control?:

@dannytaurus said in How to automate radio buttons as a single control?:

The only way I can think of doing this is with a hidden slider, used for automation only,

That was my first thought too.

yeah its what we use for our XY pad positioning - two hidden sliders.....

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey @Lindon Two OG thumbs up is enough for me. Thanks!

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus said in How to automate radio buttons as a single control?:

@David-Healey @Lindon Two OG thumbs up is enough for me. Thanks!

what's "OG"?

[dannytaurus]

@Lindon

[David Healey]

@Lindon said in How to automate radio buttons as a single control?:

what's "OG"?

Old Goat

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Z-xitTjQ2k

[dannytaurus]

@David-Healey Awesome!

[Lindon]

@David-Healey made me laff..GOAT I get OG is new to me - so colour me Meryl....

[Christoph Hart]

The OOG would recommend not a hidden slider but a LAF that paint the three buttons on a linear slider in vertical mode. Or a scriptPanel if you dont want the drag between values behaviour.

I never use the radio group for non UI, saveInPreset components for this very reason.