Graphics Functions

d.healey

Could you add a property to the g.drawText(); function to allow us to change the horizontal alignment?

Christoph Hart

I need to add another function as you can't "overload" methods in Javascript and I need to keep the old function prototype for backward compatibility.

But I'll add something like:

g.drawAlignedText("Put me left", [0, 0, 100, 50], "centredLeft");

using the same strings as the Label for alignment. The g.drawText() method stretches the font to the height of the passed in area (and I doom the day that I decided it to do so), so I wanted to add another g.drawText method anyway.

As for rotation, I'll add a function that rotates the whole canvas. Then you can do funny things like this:

// Rotate it by 20%
g.rotate(-0.2 * Math.PI * 2);

// Draw something
g.fillRect([20, 80, 10, 10]);

// Rotate it back
g.rotate(0.2 * Math.PI * 2);

For the drop shadow, play around with g.addDropShadowFromAlpha(int colour, int radius):

const var Panel = Content.addPanel("Panel", 63, 9);
Panel.set("height", 100);

Panel.setPaintRoutine(function(g)
{
	// 1. Draw the shape of your drop shadow
	g.setColour(Colours.white);
	g.fillEllipse([20, 20, 40, 40]);
	
	// 2. Add the drop shadow
	g.addDropShadowFromAlpha(Colours.white, 10.0);
	
	// 3. Draw your actual object
	g.setColour(Colours.black);
	g.fillEllipse([20, 20, 40, 40]);
});

d.healey

Excellent, I'm currently rebuilding my entire GUI with native HISE vectors. Everything's working really well and scales beautifully!

d.healey

Just to show you what I'm up to, this is my GUI now and everything, with the exception of the knobs, has been created using panels and paint routines.

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Christoph Hart

Alright, there you go:

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/commit/b7d6f80e3f57eeb1fd848502e0957d5299305469

knob

This is the example code.

Content.makeFrontInterface(600, 500);

// Just so that you can see the drop shadow :)
const var bg = Content.addPanel("bg", 3, 4);
// [JSON bg]
Content.setPropertiesFromJSON("bg", {
  "width": 100,
  "height": 100,
  "itemColour": 4285415745,
  "itemColour2": 4285547331
});
// [/JSON bg]

const var Panel = Content.addPanel("Panel", 20, 20);
// [JSON Panel]
Content.setPropertiesFromJSON("Panel", {
  "width": 50,
  "allowCallbacks": "Clicks, Hover & Dragging"
});
// [/JSON Panel]

Panel.setPaintRoutine(function(g)
{
	// 1. Draw the drop shadow
	g.setColour(0x88000000);
	g.fillEllipse([6, 2, this.getWidth()-10, this.getHeight()-10]);
	g.addDropShadowFromAlpha(0x88000000, 8);
	
	// 2. Draw the knob
	g.setColour(Colours.grey);
	g.setGradientFill([0xFF666666, 0.0, 0.0, 0xFF444444, 0.0, 50.0]);
	g.fillEllipse([5, 0, this.getWidth()-10, this.getHeight()-10]);
	
	// 3. Rotate the canvas. 
        // Note that the pivot centre is not the mid point of the panel because the ellipse is smaller
	g.rotate(this.getValue() * 1.5 * Math.PI, [25, 20]);;
	
	// 4. Draw the dot
	g.setGradientFill([0xFF111111, 0.0, 0.0, 0xFF222222, 0.0, 50.0]);
	g.setColour(0xaa000000);
	g.drawEllipse([15, 25, 7, 7], 1.0);;
	g.fillEllipse([15, 25, 7, 7]);
});


Panel.setMouseCallback(function(event)
{
	if(event.clicked)
	{
		this.data.mouseDownValue = this.getValue();
	}
	else if (event.drag)
	{
		var distance = event.dragX - event.dragY;
		
		// change this for sensitivity
		var normalisedDistance = distance / 200.0; 
		
		var newValue = Math.range(this.data.mouseDownValue + normalisedDistance, 0.0, 1.0);

		this.setValue(newValue);
		this.changed();
		this.repaintImmediately();
	}
});

d.healey

Yippie!!!!

Dominik Mayer

Nice one.

Christoph Hart

And I added g.drawAlignedText():

Content.makeFrontInterface(600, 500);
const var Panel = Content.addPanel("Panel", 24, 30);
// [JSON Panel]
Content.setPropertiesFromJSON("Panel", {
  "width": 214,
  "height": 136
});
// [/JSON Panel]

Panel.setPaintRoutine(function(g)
{
	// I can't help myself...
	g.setFont("Comic Sans MS", 24.0);
	
	g.setColour(Colours.white);
	g.drawAlignedText("Funky Alignment", [0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight()], "centredTop");
});

tshoats

I'm starting to love this framework more and more, these vector api calls remind me of scripting CSS3 with javascript :) . Awesome. David are those black menus HISE native or are those images???

d.healey

The black dropdown is HISE native.

tshoats

Ok thanks.

d.healey

If I want the knob panel range to be -100 to 100 (or anything other than 0.0-1.0), is the best approach to leave it as 0-1 and use a linear interpolation function to convert the normalized value to the desired range? Or can I just set the knob/panel's min/max to the desired ranged and make some slight adjustment to the algorithm?

Christoph Hart

Just scale it using basic math:

var normalizedValue = Math.range(this.data.mouseDownValue + normalisedDistance, 0.0, 1.0);

var value = this.data.min + normalizedValue * (this.data.max - this.data.min);

this.setValue(value);

d.healey

Excellent, thanks.

I did it a little differently to how you suggested so I'll paste my altered version here. I'm storing the normalized value as well as the actual value so that I can use one for the paint routine rotation and the other for setting parameters. I also added support for double click to set the knob to 0.

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d.healey

Christoph, is there way to prevent the panel knobs and sliders from resetting to zero every time the script is compiled or the preset is loaded? I've tried with the knob example you posted.

Christoph Hart

Panel.set("saveInPreset", true);

If you set this property, it will save the value before recompiling and executes the control callback after compilation with the stored value (after setting the value internally). By default it's disabled for ScriptPanels, so you need to enable this specifically.

The general rule of thumb is: Enable this property for everything that controls sound parameters so you want this to be restored when you load user presets), but disable this for GUI controls (like buttons that toggle the visibility of UI pages, etc.). And definitely disable those for buttons that load user presets or you get an infinite loop...

d.healey

I just realised that it wasn't set for your example, but for I already have set it in my own project. I shall investigate further.

d.healey

I think it's something in my factory function but I haven't worked out what yet...

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Christoph Hart

The problem is that you're using the normalised value in the paint callback, so while the actual value is restored correctly, you're simply not painting it - it will not restore the complete object, but just the value passed in setValue. The other data should be either constant or derived from this value.

There are a few other issues with the example:

use local control = ... instead of var
Why did you use a global variable for the paint callback? Just handle it like the event callback. In general I advice to use globalvariables only when necessary.

d.healey

Aha I see, so I'll have to convert the value. What's the advantage of using local, is it just for encapsulation?

I'm using global because in my project that the function is taken from I'm calling the function from within other namespaces and it wouldn't work unless I set it to global, but actually I had to move the position of the functions to before the other namespaces anyway so I think I could set them to const var now instead of global and it should work.

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