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I have a parameter which goes from 0.0 to 4.0. However, when displaying (in the GUI less front end and the GUI textedit) I want it to show 'off' when the value is 0.0 and the floating point value otherwise.
In the olden days of VST2 and VSTGUI3, I used to use setStringConvert to have a function that would provide the text for my textedit box, and setParameterDisplay in the VST2 code to provide the correctly formatted text (either number of text) for this. Â
Using ASPiK and VSTGUI4, am I fixed to either a floating point value, or text enum type display or is there a way of providing more custom text for displaying? Or do I need to make a new custom textedit that does what I want (which seems a bit overkill compared to VST2 and VSTGUI3)
Hope that makes sense!
cheers
Bruce
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looking at the code....perhaps I could make a new Plugin Parameter class and override the
getControlValueAsString function........
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currently, I've got it working by adding code to catch the parameter ID and value in the bottom of the getControlValueAsString() function in pluginparameter.cpp
 (but this feels very wrong!)
  if(controlID==6 && value==0.0f)
    formattedString = "off";
  return formattedString;
Hey - yes that would be a case for doing a custom VSTGUI control to subclass CEditBox object. This would actually be fairly simple because you would only need to override the onDraw( ) feature and insert the OFF text when the value hits 0.0. I can look into this next week when we have spring break and I will have more free time.Â
But it might make a nice exercise for you to get into the Custom View paradigm (there is an override of the CAnimKnob in the sample code).Â
WillÂ
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Thanks, Will. I'm starting to understand the structure of it all a bit better now. Your custom controls/views are very useful as examples :-). I'm currently playing with the XYPadEx control in order to limit the drawing of the puk to a circle, rather than the full square, which has been an interesting exercise.Â
cheers
Bruce
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