Using custom preset system - as in the actual presets themselves, not a browser

[DanH]

@ustk said in Using custom preset system - as in the actual presets themselves, not a browser:

that's what I do a lot in the things I've worked on

of course Ok I'm obviously passing the data in wrong. Will take another look...

[DanH]

@ustk ok got it working. Is it possible to update the .preset file without using Engine.saveUserPreset ?

[ustk]

@DanH Yeah that's where the biggest job resides.
might doable with some XML parsing, and save as XML but the object might live as strings that are difficult to read/write. I won't be able to make tests within the next days so...

[DanH]

@ustk I think it's too risky. One mistake in a preset file and it doesn't load.

[David Healey]

@DanH what about with HISE's xml parser?

[DanH]

@David-Healey don't know anything about it

[David Healey]

@DanH These two

[ustk]

@David-Healey I tried in during my testing and even if I could make it work, the parsing of an array that contains strings is bad bad bad. You need to rework the result to remove the escape char and other things.
This might just be normal, but then what about rewriting it back? Might work, might be risky, this I'm not sure until further testing it

[Orvillain]

@DanH said in Using custom preset system - as in the actual presets themselves, not a browser:

@ustk ok got it working. Is it possible to update the .preset file without using Engine.saveUserPreset ?

Why do you want to do this?

I'm doing this when I save my custom fx chain format:

inline function saveFXChainPreset() {
        FileSystem.browse(FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.UserPresets), true, "*.fxchain", function (f) {
            if (!isDefined(f) || f == 0) return;

            PluginSharedData.presetMode = "FXChain";

            // Get the data object directly from our custom save logic
            var data = PluginUserPresetHandling.onPresetSave();
            f.writeObject(data);
        });
    }

the key being setup a file reference, and then call f.writeObject(blahblah) on it.

[DanH]

@Orvillain said in Using custom preset system - as in the actual presets themselves, not a browser:

Why do you want to do this?

Because it kills voices and I want to silently update some metadata like tags and author for presets.

But.... your method seems to be working!!! I feel like I'm going to have to remove certain characters in case it messes up the preset code....