3 Quick Questions about Expansions!

d.healey

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...

A Former User

Unrelated but has anyone else had the Custom Keyboard FloatingTile randomly play a high F and stick when clicking GUI elements?

I thought was my old midi controller but it only happens when I click something on the GUI, both in HISE and in DAW.

Super weird

A Former User

I still need help regarding making expansions persistent and loading on DAW open/close.

https://streamable.com/1z0dbm

I can install the libraries and load them manually just fine. But on DAW save/load it defaults back to no expansion HOWEVER if I hit "Open Preset Folder" in the preset browser, it directs me to the right expansion folder.

So somehow the currentExpansion is saved, but I can't figure out how to restore it.

I've tried making init presets and using

Engine.loadNextUserPreset(1);

in both button callbacks and onInit, without any success.

//init stuff:

include("CustomExpansionLoading.js");

const var expHandler = Engine.createExpansionHandler();
var currentExpansion;

//Load expansions

switch (currentExpansion)
{
    case "Cloudburst":
        loadCloudburst();
        break;
        
    case "Atlas":
        loadAtlas();
        break;
        
    case "Blackout":
        loadBlackout();
        break;
        
    case "Bloom":
        loadBloom();
        break;
    
    default:
};

inline function loadBloom()
{
        //Initialize Expansion    
    Engine.setCurrentExpansion("Bloom");
    currentExpansion = "Bloom";
        //Put Stuff Under This
        //Setting BG Image        
    backgroundImage = ("{EXP::Bloom}bg_bloom.png");
    Image_BG.setAlpha(1);
    Image_BG.set("fileName", backgroundImage); 
        //Setting up Samplers    
    SamplerRR.setAttribute(12, 0);
    Sampler_NoRR.setAttribute(12, 1);
    Sampler_Loops.setAttribute(12, 1);
    SamplerRR.setBypassed(0);
    Sampler_NoRR.setBypassed(1);  
    Sampler_Loops.setBypassed(1);
    SamplerRR.asSampler().loadSampleMap("{EXP::Bloom}Bloom_SampleMap");   
        //Setting Key Colours    
    colourKeysReset();
    colourKeysBloom();
        //Hiding othe GUI Elements    
    ComboBox_Atlas.set("visible", 0);    
    Button_LoopSpeedHalf.showControl(0);
    Button_LoopSpeedDouble.showControl(0);
    Label_LoopSpeedHalf.showControl(0);
    Label_LoopSpeedDouble.showControl(0);     
};

//Button to switch to this expansion.
inline function onExpansions_ButtonBloomControl(component, value)
{
    if (value)
    {
        loadBloom();
    }
};

A lot of it is dependant on the variable currentExpansion, and I think somehow it isn't saving that right.

I've probably massively overcomplicated this...

A Former User

I've just realized there's a

Engine.setCurrentExpansion and a expHandler.setCurrentExpansion.

This might be the cause of my woes...

A Former User

OKAY got it working (I think), I didn't know about the expHandler.setExpansionCallBack() function and was trying to do things manually this whole time

arminh

@iamlamprey hey, how did you get image covers from every expansion?

d.healey

@arminh Each expansion has an images folder, put your image in there.

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