3 buttons, 3 panels, and lots of potential scripting...

[ulrik]

@DanH try this

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[d.healey]

@ulrik You're making good use of that getAllComponents function again. I need to do that more.

[ulrik]

@d-healey yes it's handy, but it's easy to unintentionally collect wrong components if you're not certain of how you named the components

[DanH]

@ulrik brilliant, thank you!

so .getAllComponents will give me an array of all named components? Eg. Panel1, Panel2 etc ?

[Matt_SF]

@ulrik Elegant!
@DanH Content.getAllComponents returns all components whichs name matche the string you pass in the function.

I.e. Content.getAllComponents("pnl_") will retreive all components which have "pnl_" in their name. Obvisouly you have to be consistent in the naming of your GUI elements but it's quite handy :)

[Lindon]

@Matt_SF said in 3 buttons, 3 panels, and lots of potential scripting...:

@ulrik Elegant!
@DanH Content.getAllComponents returns all components whichs name matche the string you pass in the function.

I.e. Content.getAllComponents("pnl_") will retreive all components which have "pnl_" in their name. Obvisouly you have to be consistent in the naming of your GUI elements but it's quite handy :)

to be honest I prefer this naming approach;
Button_01
Button_02
Button_03
etc.

and then load in a sequenced and ordered way into my array

const var NUM_VOICES = 4; //some number of voices
const var myButtonArray = [];
myButtonArray.reserve(NUM_VOICES)

for(i=0;i<NUM_VOICES; i++)
{
    myButtonArray[i] = Content.getComponent("Button_0" + (i+1));
    myButtonArray[i].setControlCallback(onMyButtonControl);
}

This gives me everyone in the array in the correct sequenced order....and lets assume these buttons are turning some filter on or off, I can also add the filter itself(again in the right order):

const var NUM_VOICES = 4; //some number of voices
const var myButtonArray = [];
myButtonArray.reserve(NUM_VOICES)
const var myFilterArray = [];
myFilterArray.reserve(NUM_VOICES)

for(i=0;i<NUM_VOICES; i++)
{
    myButtonArray[i] = Content.getComponent("Button_0" + (i+1));
    myButtonArray[i].setControlCallback(onMyButtonControl);
    myFilterArray[i] = Synth.getEffect("Filter" + (i+1));
}

which means the callback for the button only needs to be this:

inline function onMyButtonControl(component, value)
{
    local pos = myButtonArray.indexOf(component);
    myFilterArray[pos].setBypassed(1-value);
}

always interested in a faster - cleaner- better way if someone has one...

[Matt_SF]

@Lindon if your elements are numbered the function will sort them automatically. I usualy don't number them and I also liketo have control on my elements (like the script you wrote) but sometimes it can be useful to get all of typed elements quickly.

[Matt_SF]

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[d.healey]

I rarely put the full type of component in the component id, it seems redundant to call a button button.

I use a prefix to describe the type of component followed by a name that describes the button's function, if the button is part of a group of buttons I follow this with a number, almost always indexed from 0.

So I could have 10 buttons that toggle 10 panels, I might call them btnToggle0, btnToggle1, etc.

Then I could use either the loop technique or the getAllComponents technique to populate an array of references. I usually use the loop technique because most of the time I will also assign a LAF object and callback to the controls at the same time. From now on I think I'll be using the getAllComponents function when I only need a reference.

The getAll... functions are also useful when you want to loop over a set of components/modules that you haven't stored references to already. For example if I had 5 filter effects and I wanted to change a parameter on all of them but I have no other need to keep references to them:

for (x in Synth.getAllEffects("filter"))
{
   // Do the thing
}

The getAll... functions don't require additional allocation (as far as I know) so they are safe to use at runtime. By contrast you don't want to use Content.getComponent() at runtime.

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey said in 3 buttons, 3 panels, and lots of potential scripting...:

The getAll... functions don't require additional allocation (as far as I know) so they are safe to use at runtime. By contrast you don't want to use Content.getComponent() at runtime.

Good to know