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Dec 1, 2009 at 6:53pm
Default values for M4L device?
I poked around in the docs and forums, and I didn’t find this addressed. How do we set the default values for a device? I’ve somehow screwed mine up, and when I add the device, it comes up with some undesirable values. If i edit the values in Max, then save, it still loads with the wrong menu settings when I drag the device into Live. I don’t want to loadbang their values, then that would presumably screw up any “presets” that are saved in Live.
What determines the initial values?
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Dec 1, 2009 at 7:41pm
If you look in the inspector for the live.* objects you will see settings for “Inital” and “Initial Enable”. This is one place you can set this. There is also a column in the View->Parameters window to set this if you want to see all your parameters.
AB
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Dec 1, 2009 at 8:29pm
Thanks, Andrew
What part of the pattrs is best suited for this?
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Dec 1, 2009 at 8:38pm
They’re unrelated. If you choose to use pattr, I suppose you’d add some logic and go with preset one. Please bear in mind that there’s an order in which things initialize: parameters, then pattr, then presets, then objects with ‘loadbang’ methods, then loadbang objects. If you try mixing them, you’re probably looking to make your life more complex than is necessary.
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Dec 1, 2009 at 8:59pm
Thanks AB. I think I know why my initial values got screwed up. I redid some interface things, and drag-copied (I know, I know, *so 4.x) some menus to create them. As a result, they took on the “default” value of the thing I drag-copied.
As an aside, let me again lobby for a “copy/paste style” such that you could copy the style of 1 ui object (color, border, font, etc) and paste it onto another ui object. Then, maybe I can get out of this lousy habit.
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