Full Expansions again....MASSIVE problems.....Warning swearing in the message....

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus said in Full Expansions again....MASSIVE problems.....Warning swearing in the message....:

@Lindon Is Engine.setCurrentExpansion useful here? What's the difference?

https://docs.hise.dev/scripting/scripting-api/engine/index.html#setcurrentexpansion

I have no idea what the difference is between Engine and ExpansionHandler versions of this call...

[dannytaurus]

@Lindon I asked Claude, it says they both eventually call the same function but the Engine version is just a convenience where you don't have to created an ExpansionHandler first to load. You can just load with a String.

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus said in Full Expansions again....MASSIVE problems.....Warning swearing in the message....:

@Lindon From David's recent discussion about an unload/back button, I think you're right.

However, my expansion-based project will need to work like yours - freely swapping expansions from a visible grid/list of available ones.

So working on a work around ---- where I use a file to Request the load of an expansion:

The player checks the request file every time it loads....if the request == NONE it just sets itself up as nomal... but if it == anything else - it loads the requested expansion...

So the expansions themselves now no longer load other expansions, they just make a request and unload themselves...back to the Player who handles the load of the new expansion...

its not great, in fact its a cludge, and Im about 20% of the way thru building it...

[dannytaurus]

@Lindon said:

So the expansions themselves now no longer load other expansions,
its not great, in fact its a cludge,

I would say this is a good thing. Feels to me like the player should always handle expansion loading and unloading, not the expansions themselves.

[Lindon]

@dannytaurus well good or not..it works....

[David Healey]

@Lindon said in Full Expansions again....MASSIVE problems.....Warning swearing in the message....:

I think Rhapsody only lets you load an expansion and then return to the player to load the next one, so the stack doesnt get corrupted

Correct. I believe this is how Christoph intended it to be used originally - I think he posted an example somewhere years ago that I was building off.

[Lindon]

@David-Healey yeah I'm sure that was the original intent, but if we all could be bothered to look back at my previous post about how I really didn't like expansions taking the full interface he pretty explicitly say it should be easy to build a "loader" widget and copy it into all the expansions, so I think I'm on safe ground here assuming that the loader should work as outlined above...

[David Healey]

@Lindon

I've made a minimal project which confirms the issue you've described.

FullExpansionsTest.zip

This might be a clue

I'm seeing if I can find a solution.

[David Healey]

@Lindon Here's the fix, just two lines need changing:

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/983

It is related the default state being saved when loading the first expansion.

[Lindon]

@David-Healey well done...for now I might stick to my "Load Request File" based appraoch...