More efficient switching using pictctrl

diatom's icon

Hail

I've designed a nice UI using pictctrl objects as toggles.

I'm building my own setup and want to easily select the strip in my desk to control with my midi keyboard. i want a point and click operation, not a drop-down to select the device to control. i have control and note data coming in from a couple of different places, and I want to define the UI so i have as little clicking as poss to get the functionality.

I have this

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

It works fine, but this is a snippet with 6 strips, but i have 28 in the desk and want to avoid connecting the out of strip 1 to effect the toggle off of all 27 other strips for each strip in order to get a posh radio button. I don't mind this laborious task, but is there a more efficient way?

Roman Thilenius's icon

this kind of "radiogroup" or "solo/mute" releated problem can be solved by:

whenever something happens,

- turn all off
- then turn the one on which should be on

Sébastien Gay's icon

[matrixctrl] has a very convenient "One non-zero cell per Column/Matrix/Row"-attribute, that may help :

Source Audio's icon

as alternative ...

using that ugly live.tab

diatom's icon

Thanks all!

Didn't know about live.tab - that solves the problem well as I've got a load of other live UI components in use.