Do Python scripts drive everybody crazy or is it just me?

[RegD]

Hello,
Again, I a have face difficulties in Python programming.
This time the issue relates to the method add_value_listener().

I have a series of buttons that I would like each to do their own thing when pressed but they all behave as the last button set up.

So far my script looks like this:

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[imports]
class MyController(ControlSurface):
	
	" INITALIZE "
	def __init__(self, c_instance):
		ControlSurface.__init__(self, c_instance)
		self.set_suppress_rebuild_requests(True)
		self._suppress_send_midi = True
		self.note_button = None
		self._setup()		
		self.set_suppress_rebuild_requests(False)
		self._suppress_receive_midi = False

	" SETUP BUTTONS "
	def _setup(self):
		for index in range(72): 
		self.note_button = ConfigurableButtonElement(True, MIDI_NOTE_TYPE, 0, index)) #using the Launchpad's module here
		self.note_button.name = ((str(index)) + "_Button")
		self.note_button.set_on_off_values(75, 73)
		self.note_button.turn_off()
		self.note_button.add_value_listener(self._do_stuff_value) 
						
	
	"DO STUFF ON PRESS"
	def _do_stuff_value(self, value):
		assert (self.note_button != None)
		assert isinstance(value, int)
		identifier = self.note_button.message_identifier() #<----- this is wrong (it's always 71)
		if ((value != 0) or (not self.note_button.is_momentary())):
			ControlSurface._some_function(self, identifier)

It should be feasible to monitor each button and get the associated function to run without having to set a specific listener and function for each, right?

I tried using note_button as a list of buttons ( note_button[index] ) but then I am not managing to carry the index over to the _do_stuff_value() method... is it possible somehow?

Thanks for any help!
R

[TomViolenz]

Well, almost no one ever answering your questions in this regard could be an indication

Every time I read another thread from you I think "this could be done with clyphx and/or Bomes MT, but hell, I don't know how to write a phyton script to do that...."

[ST8]

Your overwriting your button in the loop so only the last one exists, hence you always get the id of the last one. You need to make an array of buttons.

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def _setup(self):
    self._buttons = []
    for index in range(72): 
        button = ConfigurableButtonElement(True, MIDI_NOTE_TYPE, 0, index)) #using the Launchpad's module here
        button.name = ((str(index)) + "_Button")
        button.set_on_off_values(75, 73)
        button.turn_off()
        // tell the listener you want to be notified who is triggering the callback
        button.add_value_listener(self._do_stuff_value, identify_sender=True) 
        self._buttons.append(button)

// sender is now the button triggering the callback
def _do_stuff_value(self, value, sender):
    moo

[RegD]

Thank you ST8 it works great!
@TomViolenz
I am challenging myself with Python - if I give up I'll switch to clyphx and/or Bomes MT

[TomViolenz]

Thank you ST8 it works great!
@TomViolenz
I am challenging myself with Python - if I give up I'll switch to clyphx and/or Bomes MT

Fair enough and god speed

Btw, while scripting can potentially do everything clyphx does, I think (from how I understand it for now, but I'm also only just beginning) Bomes MT can give you posibilities that even scripting can't, because it is outside of Live and can thus circumvent a few of the limitations Live imposes.

So it's not necessarily an either/or proposition

Oh and clyphx is open source, this means you can look into its well documented (in the code and the clyphx manual) source code (which is in phyton of course) and take a look at how he implemented some function.
And I don't think there are many more talented Phyton coders in the Live community than Stray.

[RegD]

Thanks! that's good to know and I will definitely keep this mind !