Official Dropdown Preset Manager Beta Post

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

So, I'd posted throughout the forum regarding the dropdown menu for a preset manager I have been working on. I figured that until it is in a complete form that I would post the various versions in perhaps a hope that someone might want to offer suggestions or even contribute.

It'd be refreshing to collaborate. I'm trying to stay away from ruby though.

Here's the download: download


+ Adding dropdown menu justify left, center right.
+ adding a filemanager sort of minimalized popup that allows the creation of categories (with folder images).
+ favorites and rating maybe (using three states of smily faces.)
+ adding a nice gui style in the properties panel
+ making the properties less modular (all in one place)
+ adding the option to only hide menu on unfocus (Thanks Trogluddite)
+ adding integration of tooltips (one style for help in the style of dialogue, the other rounded rect)
+ adding integrated touchscreen support (thanks pall)

Here's some pictures (click to see enlarged image)





So, I cleaned up the code a lot. I'm guessing it will be even cleaner when i am done.

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

BTW, was thinking, Mods; Maybe a Beta section?

Anyways, decided against rating; Only using favorites with font driven star in two colours for on/off

[trogluddite]

BTW, was thinking, Mods; Maybe a Beta section?

That's not something we have the authority to do, unfortunately. I've often thought myself that the forum sections could do with extending - e.g. dedicated Ruby/ASM coding sections, "release" versions of plugins/exes, etc. You could try suggesting it via an email to support, but I wouldn't be too optimistic - even the spam-blocking features that myself and Spogg have begged for seem to be a long time coming!

[lalalandsynth]

Following this, interesting.

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

Following this, interesting.

Great

BTW, was thinking, Mods; Maybe a Beta section?

That's not something we have the authority to do, unfortunately. I've often thought myself that the forum sections could do with extending - e.g. dedicated Ruby/ASM coding sections, "release" versions of plugins/exes, etc. You could try suggesting it via an email to support, but I wouldn't be too optimistic - even the spam-blocking features that myself and Spogg have begged for seem to be a long time coming!

Yep, ah well. Anyways, made some headway making the settings for this modular. Next will be the dropdown align. Next folders and so on.

Anyways, I had a breakthrough for plugins. And that is a replacement mouse system. Think, You could have one drag y x on the parent module. And then an x y logger. Next all you would need is a mousedown event for the knob and x,y can do the rest. There would be no feedback that way because the x and y are already initiated. The redraws are next to nothing. A knob would only need merely the graphic strip!

Sick right? I think it's the future.

The reason for the drag xy is so that if the cursor goes off the plugin container it's still active. It also allows judging mouseup.

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

So, basically, I want in the final version to be a take on the ultra analog va 2 by aas's style.

But, slightly different. The AAS team like to seperate the folder from the presets, but I like the idea of having scrolls. So, here's an idea of that in an image. I was pressed for time so use Your imagination.

(click for full size)

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

Mmk, so fork of this project is here:
http://dsprobotics.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16592&p=51864#p51864

Which supercedes this one as they are both going in the same direction.

[Halon]

Great work Robert.

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

Great work Robert.

Thanks. But now I have to change this project over to 100% Ruby. There was a conflict between the ruby and prims at different speeds. It worked 2 out of 4 times and then starts to work after. Ruby dropdowns are fine too; So that's doable.

I just need to rewrite one so that it has all of the same features as the prim version.