Cycling 74 » Topic: Floating Window? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/feed Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:49:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-50441 <![CDATA[Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-50441 Tue, 18 May 2010 23:23:48 +0000 JuanSOLO How do you make a floating window with thing you’d like to see from the presentation?

Can it be done so it’s always above Ableton, so if I click on Ableton the window will stay on top?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180975 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180975 Wed, 19 May 2010 01:16:55 +0000 David Butler You need the ‘thispatcher’ object. Here’s an example. Remember if you make changes to a window to always leave yourself a button in edit view that will make the window normal again.

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180976 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180976 Wed, 19 May 2010 02:11:58 +0000 JuanSOLO THANKS!

I’m not real clear on how the thispatcher works. I have been reading about it but I am still unsure. I pasted the patch you provided into my patch, it does not open my presentation view. Do I need to put what I want in the floating window, some place specific? Should I connect the this patcher to something?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180977 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180977 Wed, 19 May 2010 09:21:47 +0000 pid [thispatcher] must reside in the window you want to affect. the logic can reside anywhere.

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the thispatcher help file is… helpful.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180978 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180978 Thu, 20 May 2010 08:43:48 +0000 amounra That’s all well and good, but we need a way to do this in a fashion that is comparable to the way that AU’s and VST’s work. i.e., when the Live track with the plugin is selected, it floats; when it isn’t, it disappears. I was able to do this with pluggo….why not m4l?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180979 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180979 Thu, 20 May 2010 14:06:45 +0000 pid hi amounra,

do you mean something like this?

(copy and paste into an empty maxforlive audio effect template; save; close; use):

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caveats: 1– i did this pretty quickly, it might not be the best – you could certainly make it tidier / more efficient. 2– fair enough, i would not use this myself – dynamically changing windows etc whilst the live transport is running is remarkably unreliable at times.

hope that helps,
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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180980 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180980 Thu, 20 May 2010 19:45:34 +0000 amounra caveats: 1– i did this pretty quickly, it might not be the best – you could certainly make it tidier / more efficient

looks pretty nice, actually.

2– fair enough, i would not use this myself – dynamically changing windows etc whilst the live transport is running is remarkably unreliable at times.

yeah, same here. I have enough problems just clicking on m4l patches and waiting for their native window to show up in the GUI. I tend to use floating windows for stuff I need to see a lot just so I don’t have to deal with the delay when I want to look at something.

The patch you posted is a very nice workaround to something that should be natively handled by m4l without all the trouble. Thanks for sharing :)

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180981 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180981 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:38:27 +0000 KrisW hello guys !

is there a way to make “main device” floating outside ableton ?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180982 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180982 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:21:20 +0000 KrisW i still did not found anything :/ anyone has some ideas ?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180983 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180983 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:36:19 +0000 doubleUG put the main patcher in a bpatcher, and make the bpatcher float

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180984 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180984 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:29:57 +0000 KrisW Hi UG … are you sure ? i cant make it to work with thispatcher nor with pcontrol :/

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180985 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180985 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:07:34 +0000 doubleUG works here

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180986 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180986 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:24:35 +0000 KrisW it works in your M4L device UG ?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180987 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180987 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:45:20 +0000 doubleUG it opens the same window in the middle of the screen. It doesnt stay on top, when i click on Live.
so your right, “Windows flags float” seems not to work

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180988 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180988 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:54:56 +0000 KrisW i would be happy if it could open the window in the middle :D i cant see anything actually . i can live without float ,but i cant see any window .
is that possible ? am i doing something wrong ? did you checked my attachment if it work in your environment ?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180989 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180989 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:03:57 +0000 doubleUG i checked your patch, when pressing the “show” button the window opens.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180990 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180990 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:07:14 +0000 KrisW thanks :(

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180991 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180991 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:51:19 +0000 amounra Window flags float definitely works in m4l/Max5/Max6….I use it all the time. Maybe there’s some specific problem with the patch….or maybe you need to put the bpatcher in another patcher, and float that (sorry, unfortunately I can’t look at your patch atm).

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180992 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180992 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:41:50 +0000 synnack I use floating windows all the time as described above and it works great. One question though, how do you make that window “always on top” in Live? As soon as I click somewhere else, my window goes behind Live. Less useful…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180993 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180993 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:28:53 +0000 11olsen send “topmost 1″ / “topmost 0″ to thispatcher object to make a window really “always on top”. i’m not sure if that works for floating windows..O.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180994 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180994 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:47:55 +0000 synnack Hrm. Nope “topmost 1″ didn’t do anything. Hrm.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180995 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180995 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:35:45 +0000 11olsen topmost message works for me, with non floating window, win7. window stays on top even while working with other software..O.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180996 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180996 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:53:03 +0000 amounra You need to actually make it float. It sounds like you’re just opening it, but not setting the float flag. Are you using the “window flags float 1″, then “window exec” messages to [thispatcher]?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180997 <![CDATA[Re: Floating Window?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/floating-window-2/#post-180997 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:55:59 +0000 synnack Here’s what worked.

“window flags nomenu, window flags float, window exec, front, presentation 1″

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