3 Quick Questions about Expansions!

[A Former User]

@d-healey I downloaded the latest one from the Scriptnode branch (not the codegen rewrite) last night, but I do have multiple HISE builds...

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey

I do have multiple HISE builds...

Why? Use git.

[A Former User]

@d-healey Never understood how it worked but I guess now's as good a time as any to learn it

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey

[A Former User]

@d-healey Oh dude coming in hot with the "here's one i prepared earlier" :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes: thanks so much for helping me out again

[A Former User]

@d-healey am I doing something wrong?

It's not automatically switching to the newer branches

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey

It's not automatically switching to the newer branches

Branch switching isn't automatic, you need to use the checkout command to switch to the branch you want.

[A Former User]

@d-healey I did, it's just not in the screenshot

the asterisk is on codegen but the compiled version is missing scriptnode (so it's the master branch from like 16 years ago)

[A Former User]

Ok I deleted the repo and redownloaded it and now it seems to be working :)

[A Former User]

@d-healey IT WORKS DAVID YOU ABSOLUTE MADMAN THANK YOU

[Lindon]

@iamlamprey so can you post the code that works?

[d.healey]

@Lindon https://forum.hise.audio/topic/3959/3-quick-questions-about-expansions/28?_=1617874170786

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in 3 Quick Questions about Expansions!:

@Lindon https://forum.hise.audio/topic/3959/3-quick-questions-about-expansions/28?_=1617874170786

err that points me further up this thread at a post that says its not working...

[d.healey]

@Lindon Yup, didn't do what I thought it did. Scroll up until you find my post with a link to a demo project, wasn't that far back.

@Christoph-Hart We need a way to accurately link to other posts in a thread, clicking the timestamp appears not to work.

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in 3 Quick Questions about Expansions!:

@Lindon Yup, didn't do what I thought it did. Scroll up until you find my post with a link to a demo project, wasn't that far back.

OK thanks.

[A Former User]

@Lindon Here's where I'm at so far, note that it's still very much a WIP (loaded expansions aren't persistent in a DAW yet, for example)

/*Basic Player plugin with on-the-fly sample-loading and image-changing + hiding of GUI elements.

I've also hidden the init sample locate dialog with:

HISE_SAMPLE_DIALOG_SHOW_INSTALL_BUTTON=0
HISE_SAMPLE_DIALOG_SHOW_LOCATE_BUTTON=0

In the Extra Definitions [Your OS] Preferences
*/
const var expHandler = Engine.createExpansionHandler();
const var SamplerRR = Synth.getChildSynth("SamplerRR");
var currentExpansion = "";

expHandler.setAllowedExpansionTypes([expHandler.FileBased, 
                                     expHandler.Intermediate, 
                                     expHandler.Encrypted]);

var expansionDirectory = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.Samples); //Changes using the Custom Setting FloatingTile
reg hr;

const var Image_BG = Content.getComponent("Image_BG");

//Set Sample Folder Button (Just shows a panel, which contains the CustomSettings FloatingTile)

inline function onButton1Control(component, value)
{
    Panel_ChangeSampleFolder.showControl(value);
};

Content.getComponent("Button1").setControlCallback(onButton1Control);

//Install Library Button

inline function onButton2Control(component, value)
{
    if (value)
    {    
        FileSystem.browse(expansionDirectory, false, "", function(result) 
    {
        hr = result;
        expHandler.installExpansionFromPackage(hr,FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.Samples));
        expHandler.refreshExpansions(); 
    });
    };
};

Content.getComponent("Button2").setControlCallback(onButton2Control);

//Library Select (Like Kontakt's Browser)

//Bloom

inline function onExpansions_ButtonBloomControl(component, value)
{
    Engine.setCurrentExpansion("Bloom");
    currentExpansion = "Bloom"; //This is used in other functions elsewhere.
    //Put Stuff Under This

    //Setting Background Image
    backgroundImage = ("{EXP::Bloom}bg_bloom.png");
    Image_BG.setAlpha(1);
    Image_BG.set("fileName", backgroundImage);  

    //Hiding/Showing UI Elements for Specific Libraries
    ComboBox_Atlas.set("visible", 0);

    //Setting up different Samplers
    SamplerRR.setAttribute(12, 0);
    Sampler_NoRR.setAttribute(12, 1);    
    SamplerRR.setBypassed(1-value);
    Sampler_NoRR.setBypassed(value);

    //Loading the sample map into the right sampler    
    SamplerRR.asSampler().loadSampleMap("{EXP::Bloom}Bloom_SampleMap");
};

[Lindon]

@iamlamprey - thanks - looks not "too" complex...

[A Former User]

How would I make the loaded expansion re-load on DAW close/reopen?

Making currentExpansion a const var obviously breaks the button functions that change it, and it doesn't default to a string unless I give it an initial value of "", which means calling that won't load the right expansion..

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey Expansions are automatically loaded when one of the expansion's presets is used, so as long as the DAW is saved and closed after a preset has been selected it "should" be there when you reopen the DAW.

[A Former User]

@d-healey Guess it's time to add a preset system then...