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Hi i´m having eight buttons on my controller, but i need only one at a time active

i came up with this VERY awkward but at least working solution (i had another one, even more complicated:)) and i´m sure there are much more elegant ways how this can be done, would be great if one of you could chime in and help me to learn better patching!

elegant-way-for-radiobuttons

hm, that would give the same problem, that i get out a single digit but my buttons need 3 values [button, row, state] to work.

that´s why i have those messageboxes, i thought there might be a way to avoid this.

If you have no need for UI objects at all like 'matrixctrl' or 'radiogroup', and the 'buttonpress' coordinate system is the same as the 'buttonlights' coordinate system(like a monome... btw, what controller is it?), then you could use something like this:

Otherwise, you could just see the 'zl' and 'decode' helpfiles and you'll find other solutions.

(If you are using a monome, though, there's the more efficient 'led/row' messages that work in terms of bitmasks... in which case you can use the bitshift operators... let me know if that's the case i can post another patch...)

Otherwise, you could just see the 'zl' and 'decode' helpfiles and you'll find other solutions.
(If you are using a monome, though, there's the more efficient 'led/row' messages that work in terms of bitmasks... in which case you can use the bitshift operators... let me know if that's the case i can post another patch...)


Yes, I think you're making it more difficult than you need to. It might be that the right outlet of matrixctrl is not what you want, but the left outlet is exactly what you want.

As I understand what you want, whenever one thing in a set gets turned on, you want the previously-on thing in that set to be turned off automatically. That's a commonly needed trick, and the way to do it is simply to store the ID of the thing that's on, then when a new ID comes in, turn off the old ID, replace it with the new ID, and and turn on the new ID. See the example on the left.

It turns out that that's exactly what matrixctrl does when you set its one/row attribute. See the example on the right.

Hello, please excuse my late reply, your tips are very apprechiated!

it´s a constant struggle for me to get a xox style programming going, not the basic function itself, with the help of you fine gentlemen, but to get the graphics right, it´s always kind of flickering lights, when the playhead leaves a step it takes a littlewhile until the step comes back to light and so on, i need to get this right :)

raja: it´s an ableton push, which i really dig but i do also have two 40h, time to let one of them go, three grid controllers is a tad too much :)

i found it´s surprisingly easy to convert a monome patch to the push or the other way around.

raja: it´s an ableton push, which i really dig but i do also have two 40h, time to let one of them go, three grid controllers is a tad too much :)
i found it´s surprisingly easy to convert a monome patch to the push or the other way around.


Maybe you will find the tabs object more useful for a good UI

unless i got your advice you wrong it´s not the gui on the maxforlive devices itself that pains me but the gridlights on the controller.

elegant way for radiobuttons?