Re: [sc-users] Re:Gui Snapshot/presets

[kernel <le_kernel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Dec 2005, at 22:52, Saul Rayson wrote:

> Hi Kernal,
>
> Thanks for your help. But how do you source values from GUI objects and how do I  implement the writeArchive and readArchive. Is there  a help file in relation to this?

sorry for the delay...is this any help?

<x-tad-smaller>(
w = </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>SCWindow</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>.new.front;
a = </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Array</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>.fill(8,{1.0.rand});

8.do{</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>|i|</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> 
</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Rect</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>(10+(i*25),10,20,127))
.action_({</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>|v|</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> a.put(i,v.value)})
.value_(a.at(i));
};

</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Rect</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>(10,150,55,20))
.states_([[</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Color</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>.blue]])
.action_({
a = </x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>"/archiveExample"</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>); 
8.do{|i| w.view.children.at(i).value_(a.at(i))};
});</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>


SCButton</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>(w,</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Rect</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>(70,150,55,20))
.states_([[</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Color</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>.white]])
.action_({a.writeArchive(</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>"/archiveExample"</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>)});


</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Rect</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>(130,150,55,20))
.states_([[</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Color</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>.blue]])
.action_({8.do{|i| a.put(i,1.0.rand); w.view.children.at(i).value_(a.at(i))}});

)</x-tad-smaller>



> Thanks again,
>
> Saul
>
>
> On 28 Dec 2005, at 11:49, Saul Rayson wrote:
>
> > I wish to have some sort of preset snap shot of a gui I've built, so
> > the settings can be stored and opened.
>
> like the MSP preset object?
>
>
> > On searching I've found PresetButtonViews...Does PresetButtonViews
> > work or is there a better way of doing this?
>
> I tend to maintain an array of values sourced from GUI objects.  so,
> each time a slider is tweaked the corresponding value in the array is
> updated.
> then you can use Object's writeArchive and readArchive to read/write to
> disk.
>
> e.g
>
> synthArg = [1,3,5,7,9,11];
> SCSlider(w,Rect(10,10,127,20)).action_({|v| synthArg.put(0,v.value)})
> synthArg.writeArchive(filePath);
> Object.readArchive(filePath);
>
> perhaps you can think of other ways to use these archiving facilities?
>
> kernel.
>
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