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Newbie GUI question

Archive · 2012 5 old posts

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rocko ·

Hi,

I'd like to produce a GUI with 2 parts - MOver part and regular part, with the usual knobs.0

Once I use the MGUI component in my module - all other GUI related components (like the other knobs) disappear.

What am I doing wrong?

Rocko

tester ·

MGUI must send info to sub-modules with interfaces. Add "wireless out" (not "wireless module out") to yellow MGUI and should be fine (do not name the node; input/output pairing). If not - post sample schematic.

trogluddite ·

This is a common problem at the start - the handling of "sub-module" GUI's is quite clever, but not explained well in the manual!

If you look inside any of the stock modules, you will see that their MGUI always has an unlabelled wireless receiver...

That wireless link is what connects the "sub-module" GUI to its "parent" - and if the parent does not have an MGUI component, the connection happens automatically. However, if you add an MGUI primitive to the "parent", this automatic connection is broken, and you need create the connection using a wireless transmitter...

So the MGUI has some "parent" GUI parts connected direct with links, and then the Wireless transmitter links to the "sub-module" GUI (knob in this case), so that all the parts are layered together as they should be. Be careful with the order that you make the links - if you connect multiple things to an MGUI view output, then the order that you make the links will set the order of the "layers". In this case you probably want to make the MGUI->Wireless link last, so that your "sub-module" parts appear on top of the "parent" graphics.

An alternative method is to go inside the "sub-modules", remove their MGUI's, and connect all of the views together with solid links to the parent MGUI - but the wireless method is usually better, because you keep the ability to move, resize and change the layer order of the "sub-module" parts - "hard-wired" view links tend to fix everything so that they can't be edited from the front panel view.

jbonnell4394 ·

Awesome, Thanks guys.. I was having trouble with this same problem.... NICE !!! jb

rocko ·

Indeed thanks guys.

very helpful.

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