saving the state umenu items

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solconnection
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saving the state umenu items

Post by solconnection » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:03 pm

How would i go about saving the state/contents of umenu items? they dont get saved with live :( (im talking about in a finished patch)

alternatively, is there any way to add your own entries to the live.menu device, seems you can only select from menu items you hard code yourself, is this right?

thanks guys, i am loving this :) sadly i am getting addicted and losing lots of sleep on it :) hehe

LOFA
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by LOFA » Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:53 pm

Open up the inspector of the umenu and type, paste or direct it to a folder that has specific items.

here is an example:

<pre><code>
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ZC
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

timeline85
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by timeline85 » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:09 am

FYI I found a workaround to solve this problem using live.numbox:

<pre><code>
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SVut8pSJWeaNE9x2G9u.uAtQvB
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

Surreal
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by Surreal » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:16 am

dang, can't even just make one in javascript with the choices... maybe a feature request?

benbracken
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by benbracken » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:13 pm

Here is one "fun" way to do such a thing:

<pre><code>
----------begin_max5_patcher----------
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pFWIV86enVUU.7ipqGFc0PMnqZOWZForwyC+KP848T.
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

timeline85
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by timeline85 » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:05 am

That's another way to do it, I think mine used less objects though :)

benbracken
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by benbracken » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:22 am

ah, maybe I didn't understand what you wanted to do. In yours the contents of the umenu will not be saved when closing/reopening the set.

-Ben

benbracken
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by benbracken » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:34 am

Lets clarify.

It is correct that if all the OP wants to do is send a single integer to umenu (setting the position), the other two examples will work just fine.

The OP mentioned he wanted to save the "state/contents". If you are not using the prefix attribute (which is a file path) with autopopulate turned on, the contents will not be saved. The OP did not mention how he was populating the umenu. If you are adding elements to the umenu in other ways, as in my patch, your example will not work.

-Ben

timeline85
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Re: saving the state umenu items

Post by timeline85 » Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:44 am

Ah yes that's the confusion, my method is assuming that you are going to poll and update the contents of umenu when the patch loads. The patch I developed this for pulls the track names from the live set and populates the umenu with them.

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