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Alturnitives to the drop down selector?

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lithium ·

What other ways can I make a selector without the need for drop down lists? I found a post about this on here but I was not sure how it works... Any ideas?

oddson ·

I seem to recall someone asking a similar question and it turned out they were looking for radio buttons...

radiobuttons2.osm

I think one other wanted a more custom look to the drop-down.

Can you be more specific?

galad ·

hrm

there could also be a rotary knob made...i could use that

lithium ·

I found that .osm too, but was not sure how to connect it to the muliti osc.... I'm still a big noob...

oddson ·

radioOSC.osm

There's also this one (with FL style buttons)... waveSelectorX.osm

from this thread: drop down menus

If you're really a noob you need to watch out for the Hz vs 0-1 frequency range issue as the second example needs 0-1 frequency instead of Hz based values.

exonerate ·

also heres an example of using a knob to select different waveforms,

http://www.box.net/shared/1id57j45nx

you can make a knob move in steps in the properties, if you look inside the properties of the knob in my example you will see i've ticked step and set it to 5 for the number of waveforms, and i've set the max value to 4.

they are the only changes you need to make to a knob in SM for it to turn into a rotary (select) knob.

cheers 😉

exo

oddson ·

oddson wrote: ...watch out for the Hz vs 0-1 frequency range issue as the second example needs 0-1 frequency instead of Hz based values.

Actually... it doesn't seem to have a preset module either. I may give it an update to make it more usuable...

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

lithium ·

Thanks guys.... This really helps...

bootsy ·

oddson wrote: I seem to recall someone asking a similar question and it turned out they were looking for radio buttons...

radiobuttons2.osm

I think one other wanted a more custom look to the drop-down.

Can you be more specific?

For some reason this ones values (same with the radio osm in the wiki) got not correctly recalled from the preset manager. They are stored correctly in the presets but if you recall presets the radio buttons change in a weird way. Any ideas?

sunsynth ·

Hi bootsy,

the old copy/synchronize and forget thingy:

the Toggle-presets are all named: Switch

+ the Switch-presets: UpDown

SUNsynth

bootsy ·

no, unfortunately not. Check out this example here: http://bootsy.cr68.com/tmp/RadioButtons_Example.osm

Set some presets from programm 1 to 8 and then step back to 1 in the preset manager - some of them are lost.

What I already observed is that the presets are actually correctly set (after setting the 8 do an export and you can control the exported file). But when switching to presets they firstly gets correctly loaded but then some weird things going on (which I don't understand) and some are reseted.

Any furhter hints?

sunsynth ·

Try this:

P.S: Else After Preset-Load all Switches get a shut off-reset...

bootsy ·

What is that "flipper" module? (Where can I find that?)

sunsynth ·

Acrobat ·

sunsynth wrote:

.. it's time to make it a primitive!

sunsynth ·

@bootsy: it flips between the 2 boolean states: On/Off (1/0) dependent of the corresponding input-trigger

@acrobat: You are right! I wish it would give a Flag: User/system-mod(primitive)...!

exonerate ·

Acrobat wrote: sunsynth wrote:

.. it's time to make it a primitive!

Hmm......Ok 😉

🙂

sunsynth ·

Hey Exo!

counter=flipper ??? 😉

Works only in DevMode!!!

Walter

Acrobat ·

exonerate wrote: Hmm......Ok 😉

🙂

eh eh eh..... I usually use the advanced to get an integer, but for 0/1 that's perfect: what I call "minimal approach"!

bootsy ·

Excellent! Know it works correctly while preset switching! Thanks for your help, bootsy

theorize ·

oddson wrote: There's also this one (with FL style buttons)... waveSelectorX.osm

from this thread: drop down menus

If you're really a noob you need to watch out for the Hz vs 0-1 frequency range issue as the second example needs 0-1 frequency instead of Hz based values.

thanks! I was going to have to build one of those soon, i've always been a sucker for 'em.

Dave ·

Where can we download the working version of the .osm? The one in the wiki is still "corrupt"...

bootsy ·

[old link]

sunsynth ·

Hi Dave,

you only have 2 add the 4 Parts to the 'radiobuttons2.osm' in one switch-modul... (See page 1 of this topic)

They are already synched 🙂

So only 1 minute work 4 you... 😉

SUNsynth

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