I have a patch in which i’m using the pictslider x/y values to control vst paramaters. I’m now implementing a gesture recorder so I can record and loop the movements of the slider, but I have a problem in that I’m not sure how to stop the incoming values while I’m moving the slider manually, so it’s ok recording the first movements, but when I go re-record it doesn’t work. I’m thinking there may be a way of using the mousefilter, which stops the signal from coming out while the mouse button is down, but I’m not sure how to get it to switch the gate off on for the incoming values. I have also looked at mousestate but i’m going to be using more than one instance of this in my patch, so I can’t use it because it would turn off the input to all pictsliders whenever the mouse button is down. I’m guessing I’m probably overlooking something quite simple…

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don’t we all :-)