Help with iteration

[VirtualVirgin]

I am trying to make variable definitions for 16 "Dotboxes" here, but I apparently have the syntax wrong:

How should I write it?

[d.healey]

@VirtualVirgin

What's a dot box?

The parameter you pass to getComponent needs to be the id of the component - I don't think your component is called "DotBox[i]".

I'm assuming your components are going to be called something like "DotBox0", "DotBox1", etc.

So you need to append i to the end of the name, like so

Content.getComponent("DotBox" + i);

You could also use Content.getAllComponents("DotBox\\d") which will create an array containing references to all components with "DotBox" in the name followed by a number.

Also you can't declare a const in a loop, and you wouldn't want to here. Instead declare your array outside of the loop.

[orange]

@VirtualVirgin

As the console warning message says, const var declarations must be on global level. So it can't be in a function or loop.

Also push is a good way to create such arrays.

const var arry_DotBox = [];

for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
{
    arry_DotBox.push(Content.getComponent("DotBox" + i));
    arry_DotBox[i].setLocalLookAndFeel(dotBoxLaf);
}

[VirtualVirgin]

@d-healey said in Help with iteration:

@VirtualVirgin

What's a dot box?

A "DotBox" is just a modification of your checkbox.
I prefer the dots for button matrices:

[d.healey]

@VirtualVirgin for that use case it's better to use a panel rather than an array of buttons. Using a panel is also dynamic so you can change the number of dot boxes on the fly

[ustk]

@VirtualVirgin You might want to check this out

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/7049/my-tooth-hurts?_=1731938031853

But I don't guarantee the snippet will load because it's quite old...

[VirtualVirgin]

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[VirtualVirgin]

@d-healey said in Help with iteration:

@VirtualVirgin for that use case it's better to use a panel rather than an array of buttons. Using a panel is also dynamic so you can change the number of dot boxes on the fly

In the example above the buttons are already on a panel.
Are you saying I should use a panel instead of buttons?
I can get multiple values from different places on a panel?

[d.healey]

@VirtualVirgin said in Help with iteration:

Are you saying I should use a panel instead of buttons?

Yes. Take a look at this (1:45:44)

https://youtu.be/xU8dLVISM-A?t=6344

[VirtualVirgin]

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[VirtualVirgin]

@VirtualVirgin Sorry about the multiples! I kept getting a "bad gateway error" when trying to post and it didn't look like they went through.

[Lindon]

@VirtualVirgin just delete them then.