Floating Tile and "You must specify the unique component name, not the object itself"

[aaronventure]

I'm trying to set the data for the floating tile from the script. I'm adding a peak meter.

	const var meter2 = Content.addFloatingTile("headerMasterMeter", UI.WIDTH - 470, 7);
	const var meter2data = 
	{
		"ProcessorId": "MasterGain",
		"Index": -1,
		"FollowWorkspace": false,
		"SegmentLedSize": 0,
		"UpDecayTime": 0.0,
		"DownDecayTime": 200,
		"UseSourceChannels": false,
		"SkewFactor": 0.3,
		"PaddingSize": 1,
		"ShowMaxPeak": 1.0,
		"ChannelIndexes": [0, 1],
	};
	Content.setPropertiesFromJSON("headerMasterMeter",
	{
		"width": 170,
		"height": 13,
		"bgColour": 0x00000000,
		"itemColour": ColorPalette.base
		"itemColour2": ColorPalette.dark,
		"textColour": 0x9AFFFFFF, // max peak value
		"ContentType": "MatrixPeakMeter",
	});
	meter2.set("Data", meter2data);

but the line meter2.set("Data", meter2data);˛ results in an error main:! You must specify the unique component name, not the object itself.

I can't figure this one out. How do I set the data property from the script?

[d.healey]

@aaronventure

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/7466/updating-floatingtile-content-data?_=1708387263799

[aaronventure]

@d-healey So I just had to do trace(meter2data).

Huh. Weird. Does the component expect a string that it then parses as JSON?

Thanks, David.

[d.healey]

@aaronventure said in Floating Tile and "You must specify the unique component name, not the object itself":

Does the component expect a string that it then parses as JSON?

If I remember correctly the Data property is a json string. You can actually just edit the string directly but I find it easier to convert it to an object. If you press j on the component you'll see the string.

[aaronventure]

@d-healey Ah okay, the answer was right there .

Can we rotate the Floating Tile Peak meter so that it's vertical?

[d.healey]

@aaronventure Yes - https://codeberg.org/LibreWave/RhapsodyBoilerplate/src/branch/main/includes/LookAndFeel.js#L946

[aaronventure]

@d-healey Ah, great, thanks. And the value accounts for the DownDecayTime property?

[d.healey]

@aaronventure value is the current level. In my case I am just displaying both channels merged together so that's why I'm looping over the peaks and then dividing to get an average. You probably don't want to do this.

[d.healey]

@aaronventure Actually I just checked and you don't even need to do anything custom to get a vertical peak meter. Just change the dimensions of the floating tile and it's vertical.

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[aaronventure]

@d-healey HISE discriminates against short and fat vertical meters!

Good find, sensible implementation. Thanks!