Preset browser and expansions again...

[rzrsharpeprod]

I have another strange question about expansions and the preset browser.
For my project a separate banks page is required which then loads the selected expansion & UI when clicked on and hides the banks page.
@d-healey helped me with this quite a bit and I now have it working and loading the expansion.

The problem I have is that I don't need the expansions column in the standard preset browser as it's superseded by the banks page. I just need the last column showing the presets for the chosen expansion.

My first thought was just to set showExpansionColumn to false in the preset browser settings, but then the presets don't show up when the expansion is loaded from the banks page via setCurrentExpansion.
To get around this I set showExpansionColumn to true and made it 0.01 width with the last column being 0.99 so that it is there but can't be seen.
This works nicely and allows the presets to show in the final column. They can then be clicked and selected as expected which loads the presets as expected.

The problem with this solution is that it turns out that it breaks the search and favourites feature!! I changed the widths of the 2 columns to 0.4 and 0.6 for example so that I could see the expansions column to do some testing.
If I click on the expansion first and then the preset the search and favourites works as expected. But obviously I don't want the expansions column to be there in the real project as the whole point is to choose the expansions via the banks page.

I presume that clicking the expansions column in the preset browser does more than just

expHandler.setCurrentExpansion();

does as that is what I am calling to load the expansions but it's not the same behaviour as clicking the expansions column.

Is there something else I can call/need to call in order to have the same post click action as clicking on the expansion column to load the expansion? Or is there another/better way entirely?

[d.healey]

@rzrsharpeprod said in Preset browser and expansions again...:

but then the presets don't show up when the expansion is loaded

Hmm that's strange. Maybe there's a bug there that can be fixed.

[rzrsharpeprod]

@d-healey Yeah it's a bit odd. I'll build a minimal example later when I'm home and post a snippet.

[d.healey]

Fixed the presets not showing up unless the expansion column is visible

Show expansion presets, regardless of expansion column visibility by davidhealey · Pull Request #772 · christophhart/HISE

Forum thread: https://forum.hise.audio/topic/13373/preset-browser-and-expansions-again

GitHub (github.com)