Expansions / Combo Box + SampleMaps

[DanH]

@d-healey yup. I did @ christoph in a post about it recently

I also find the editor (I know I can reset this) and the windows resizing to be a bit of a pain currently in Dev.

[d.healey]

@DanH Window resizing was fixed and the new editor is awesome, it just doesn't remember some settings properly yet :p

[ustk]

@DanH The more we are for testing, the more the bugs will be fixed :)

[DanH]

@ustk I'm dipping in and out :)

[DanH]

@d-healey works great :) Thank you! Worth pushing to Christoph?

[d.healey]

@DanH I already have an open pull request and everytime I add something it automatically gets added to it - https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/192 - I have no idea how it works but it's a mess :p

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in Expansions / Combo Box + SampleMaps:

@DanH I've found develop to be more stable than master, especially with look and feel stuff. What parts have you found that are unstable?

-- So the laggy EQ display problem is fixed?

[DanH]

@Lindon just tried and seems ok

[DanH]

@d-healey So all working nicely. When an extension is active and the sample maps are loaded into the combo box the names of the maps have a prefix of '{EXP::expansionname}'

which is a little annoying!

I've had a look in ScriptExpansion.h/.cpp but I can't see anything to potentially change in there and I wonder if it's the baseline wildcard reference.

Any ideas of how to change the prefix most welcome!

[d.healey]

@DanH Run through the names in a loop and use the replace command to remove the extra text. I used the replace command in a recent LAF video on Patreon if you need guidance on that function.

[DanH]

@d-healey will have a crack :)

[d.healey]

@d-healey said in Expansions / Combo Box + SampleMaps:

everytime I add something it automatically gets added to it - https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/192 - I have no idea how it works but it's a mess

I just figured out how to make cleaner pull requests for individual changes, which should be much more pleasant for Christoph to merge. So here it is - https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/195

[DanH]

@d-healey Morning, hope you had a good weekend!

Looking into this solution and struggling to make it work with what I've got.

So you've suggested running the names in a loop. My names (sample map names) are (I guess?) inside my 'sampleMap' array (which changes every time you switch expansion).

I'm at a loss of how to access any kind of 'text' parameter of the sample maps, like you have done in your laf video with the icons.

I also wondered if I need to define the bit I want to remove as below. I got this far befoe realising I'm missing a couple of pieces of the puzzle

    local prefix = ("EXP::");

        for (i = 0; i < sampleMaps.length; i++)
    {
        sampleMaps[i].replace("EXP::");
        prefix[i].replace("");
    }

[d.healey]

@DanH That looks good to me, just remove the prefix thing, you don't need that, and remember that replace returns a new string so you need to assign that to the array element

[DanH]

@d-healey Thanks David, how do I assign the new string?

[d.healey]

@DanH

sampleMaps[i] = sampleMaps[i].replace(blahablahblah);

You could use a for in loop here if you want to be fancy efficient.

[DanH]

@d-healey brilliant, that works, thank you :)

The name of the expansion is prefixed as well - which I might keep. But would there be a way of referencing that within the brackets?

So currently it looks like:

{*nameofexpansion}*sampleMapname

eg {DAN EXP 1}BASS 1

[d.healey]

@DanH Just add a second replace command on the next line.

[DanH]

@d-healey that's clever!

[DanH]

@d-healey Argh

So possibly by changing the naming system the sampler now can't find the sample maps

Hmmmm... So this whole thing was to display the names nicely in the combo box which is used for switching sample maps. Perhaps I can link another combo box to actually select the sample maps and this one just displays the names nicely?

Or a knob?

Actually that would probably break the system I'm already using

EDIT - Actually a parallel combo box might be the one