setting live.numbox min and max?

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LaotzeSunHammer
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setting live.numbox min and max?

Post by LaotzeSunHammer » Thu Jul 08, 2010 4:04 pm

Hi all,

Is it not possible to send a message to live.numbox to set its range, or its min and max? it seems like a 'range' or even 'range/enum' message might do the trick (based on its attributes) but no; also unlike a Max number object live.numbox does not accept min or max messages.

Anyone found a workaround?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: setting live.numbox min and max?

Post by emmanuel_2 » Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:02 pm

You can't dynamically change the range. This would destroy the automation.
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Re: setting live.numbox min and max?

Post by synnack » Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:22 am

Hrm I never noticed min/max messages weren't supported by live.numbox

That sucks. Great feature request though.
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Re: setting live.numbox min and max?

Post by hoffman2k » Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:00 am

tempus3r wrote:Hrm I never noticed min/max messages weren't supported by live.numbox

That sucks. Great feature request though.
It won't be an upcoming feature I think. There isn't a single plugin or device that can dynamically change its automation lanes and I doubt there will ever be one.
For dynamic ranges on a fixed value, I suggest to go with 0. to 1., so that you can enter the dynamic range with a scale object. That is for example how I made the dial components of the Clip Mapper.
This does make the numbox value display kinda useless though. Possibly something you can work around by combining a panel, a numbox and a Live.numbox to combine into a regular numbox that looks like a live.numbox. With the live.numbox storing the value.

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Re: setting live.numbox min and max?

Post by LaotzeSunHammer » Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:03 pm

emmanuel_2 wrote:You can dynamically change the range. This would destroy the automation.
Yeah, good point. Thanks for the insight hoffman.

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