Script panel label keyboard entry?

[Christoph Hart]

@aaronventure there‘s Engine.getStringWifdth() but that solution sounds a bit hacky.

[aaronventure]

@Christoph-Hart said in Script panel label keyboard entry?:

hacky

I'm a Kontakt developer.

[aaronventure]

@Christoph-Hart Right, so my whole idea won't work because clicking outside the label (closing edit mode) doesn't trigger the callback where the label gets hidden again. I'm now thinking of manually doing the whole edit thing with a paint routine and the KeyPressCallback.

[d.healey]

@aaronventure put the label in a panel then clicking outside the label will trigger the panels callback where you can hide the label

[aaronventure]

@d-healey That could work. But I would have to be hiding the label in every single panel and control callback i have to account for edge cases.

[aaronventure]

@aaronventure Hm. Or use the onKeyPressCallback to detect lost focus (learned about that today).

[d.healey]

I think the HISE god might have heard your prayer

[Christoph Hart]

Damn it, somebody got a news alert on the HISE commit history :)

I think you've been trying your best to hack around this, so let's make a proper solution:

Content.showModalTextInput(properties, callback)

https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/commit/b33fa635e639a31bb0d5cc8252ada4e31ab13737

The autocomplete and the docs don't show this function yet but they will be added the next time I'm on Windows. The usage is pretty easy, it expects a JSON with the properties (which will take the exact input as the label properties, so you can just paste the JSON properties from a label here. If you omit any property it defaults to the default appearance of the slider input box.

The callback expects a function with two parameters, the first will be either true (if the user pressed the Return key to confirm the input) or false (if the user pressed Escape, Tab, or clicked anywhere outside to dismiss the value change). The second argument will be a string value with the text input which you then can use for setting the value or anything else).

const var prop =
{
	"parentComponent": "Panel1", // use an empty string for global coordinates
	"fontName": "Comic Sans MS", 
	"x": 10,					 // these positions are relative to the parentComponent
	"y": 10,					 // if you omit these and the area is empty, it will use
	"width": 90,				 // the default positioning from the slider text box
	"height": 24,
	"fontSize": 18,
	"alignment": "right",
	"fontStyle": "Bold",
	"bgColour": 0xFF00FF00,
	"itemColour": 16679297,
	"textColour": 4287455585,
	"text": "funkyboy"			// the initial text to display
};

// the minimum properties will show the default slider popup
const var minProp = 
{
	"text": "some text"
};

inline function onButton1Control(component, value)
{
	Content.showModalTextInput(prop, function(ok, input)
	{
		Console.print(ok);
		Console.print(input);
	});
};

Content.getComponent("Button1").setControlCallback(onButton1Control);

[d.healey]

I think it also solves my feature request - https://forum.hise.audio/topic/6363/feature-request-input-box?_=1694862086800

[d.healey]

I get an instant crash here :( I'll have a look in the debugger soon

[d.healey]

This happens as soon as I click the button.

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey ah haha classic, yes that is because your button isn't saveInPreset=false and then it crashes when trying to open the modal input on the onInit callback before everything is properly initialised.

It's surprisingly untrivial to fix that, but I'll try again later.

[Christoph Hart]

@Christoph-Hart In the meantime you can just set parentComponent to an empty string, then it won't traverse the component list where it's currently crashing...

[d.healey]

I remove the parent property (I missed that before!) and now clicking the button no longer causes a crash, but no popup appears either.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart so if we are here in UI widget property land - can I re-raise my feature request for using an array of values for the pop-up display in a slider?

So simply put:

  {
    "type": "ScriptSlider",
    "id": "Knob1",
    "x": 114.0,
    "y": 65.0,
    "style": "Knob",
    "middlePosition": 3,
    "filmstripImage": "Use default skin",
    "linkedTo": "",
    "max": 5.0,
    "min": 1.0,
    "displayValues":["red","green","yellow", "blue", "orange"]
  }

so if displayValues is blank (empty array), it would display as it does now....for reference the way knobMan does this is pretty cool....

[Christoph Hart]

@Lindon you already have a getValuePopupText function so this would just duplicate the functionality with less flexibility.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart said in Script panel label keyboard entry?:

@Lindon you already have a getValuePopupText function so this would just duplicate the functionality with less flexibility.

er well....

1. I cant see any documentation on the web for this call
2. There's no inline documentation in the script editor
3. when I call this

const var SoundVol3 = Content.getComponent("SoundVol3");

SoundVol3.getValuePopupText();

it tells me Interface:! StdControls.js (54): function not found

4. I'm not trying to "get" anything... I'm trying to make it display these words(colours here) when I move the knob...

An example

• I have dynamically assigned knobs for a range of effects, for one effect at least one of these knobs controls a setting who's values are: 3,4,5,8,10,12,16 - so I want a way to set the control to
  min= 1,
  max = 7,
  displayValues = [3,4,5,8,10,12,16]

[d.healey]

@Lindon I think it's this. Set rather than get

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey yup I meant that one.

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in Script panel label keyboard entry?:

@Lindon I think it's this. Set rather than get

thanks but this is very ugly now...
so given my example I need to (psudo-code):

if loaded_FX == XXXX
{
      if control id == YYYY
           control.setValuePopupFunction(myFunc(dbl){
                Switch dbl
                      case 1:
                            return "3";
                      case 2:
                            return "4";
                   etc. etc
                      case 7:
                            return "16";
          }
}

which seems very klunky - -- hey ho.