Can [itable] report values changed with the mouse?
Aug 28 2017 | 1:37 pm
Hi all!
I'm retouching an arpeggiator/sequencer I made with max4live, where I use [itable] as the main interface, as it has very good functions for what I wanna do. I need to add some additional functionality to it to make the app even better.
To do that, I need to get some sophisticated response from itable whenever I change its values with the mouse. Right now, the only thing I can get back from it by using the mouse on the interface is a bang from the right outlet, and the visual feedback on the interface telling me where my mouse is hovering, in XY-format. The bang is not enough, I need to know where the mouse was pressed or released. If I could snatch this XY-data whenever I pressed my mouse, I would be all set! Anyone know if there's something I can do with the itable object to get the values I need?
Specifically, what I want to happen is that whenever I change a value on the grid, it will work like normal, but whenever I press a coordinate that's in the same spot as before, it's gonna become "nothing", or a hole in the sequencer. The point is having the possibility of creating "pauses" in the sequencer, so that I can make an arpeggiator with custom rhythms.
Thanks in advance for answers!
Best,
Jonas
- Sep 11 2017 | 11:45 amIs it ok if I bump this? Not really progressing on my project. I can give you a patch if that helps, but my old patch, even though it works well, looks quite messy, and can be annoying to dive into.
- Jun 08 2018 | 4:30 pmBump
- Jun 09 2018 | 6:16 pmGuys, try [jsui].
- Jun 09 2018 | 6:18 pmNO!
- Jun 09 2018 | 6:21 pm"NO!" ?... btw. also [jweb] can be used in to provide this kind of flexibility.
- Jun 09 2018 | 6:36 pmhaha sorry Yaniki I guess I'm just feeling a little cantankerous. Your point is well taken. For my purposes though going down that road seems like overkill. There's so much to love about itable: it's integration with table, incorporation with pattr and it's random and weighted output. To recreate all that in jsui seems like a hassle. Unless your suggesting throw a transparent jusi on top of it that just reports mouse position? I suppose you could also use jit.lcd for something like that.
- Jun 09 2018 | 6:51 pmHmmm... [mousestate] + some constrains (to detect if the mouse is over [itable])?
- Jun 09 2018 | 11:42 pmHow about paring itable with a matrixsctrl strip
- Jun 10 2018 | 3:14 pmGlad to see some life here! Just replying to Yaniki that I did try the mousestate method, but it was for some reason very hard to get precise results from the technique, even with (hopefully) tight math. I sadly just scrapped the project for now.Rick, that kinda works, thanks for the idea! It isn't as intuitive or pretty, though.CNMAT has a 2D grid UI object that responds to mouse clicks, maybe it can be put underneath the itable object, like the solution zebark proposed. If I get on this again I'll try it out, tell me if you find it helpful.
- Jun 10 2018 | 3:50 pmPerhaps multislider is of use to you?
- Jun 10 2018 | 4:10 pmYea SLO that could work. Here's a patch that sort of does that with zl.filter. It outputs specifically edited values but not hover data.
