Can you observ if a device is selected in Ableton?
Hi there guys,
Maybe a silly idea, yet, would be amazing to implement with this info/data.
Is it possible to observ throughthe API if your M4L device is selected in the rack?
(Highlighted?)
I originally wrote that you can do this, but there's a catch.
The patch uses 'appointed_device', which is not the selected device but the selected device controlled by a control surface (MIDI controller). So the device with the blue hand icon in its title bar. An important distinction because, without a control surface, the check in the patch doesn't work. (As I just noticed because my Push wasn't turned on yet.)
name is same for multiple copies of same device no matter where inserted
you can simply observe selected track and selected device,
and issue name as well of both, track and selected device.
but the question is do you want to know am I selected ? or
what is selected ? in general using extra device