Can you us a note to change a menu item?

DaDrumBum1
DaDrumBum1 Member Posts: 8 Member
edited July 2022 in Kontakt

First of all thank you so much to anyone who takes their time to help me with this question.

I am super new to scripting just started about 2 weeks ago, and I have menu items that allow different groups just like my key switches do. However I would like to be able to have the menu item change when the key switch is pressed.

Basically when I hit note 0 I want kontakt to select item 1 in my menu. I tried with the select command but that seems to not work or I did it wrong.

This way the user can either use a keyswitch or dropdown menu and still get visual feedback.

Is this possible in Kontakt? This is what I have so far. 



on init

declare const $keyswitch1 := 0
declare const $keyswitch2 := 1
set_key_color($keyswitch1, $KEY_COLOR_RED)
set_key_color($keyswitch2, $KEY_COLOR_RED)
declare $current_state

  declare $count
    declare ui_menu $menu
    $menu := 1
    $count := 1
    while ($count < 14)
        add_menu_item ($menu, "Ethereal " & $count,$count)
        inc ($count)
    end while
end on

on note
disallow_group($ALL_GROUPS)

if ($current_state = 0)
    allow_group(0)
end if

if($current_state = 1)
    allow_group(1)
  end if

if ($EVENT_NOTE = $keyswitch1 or $menu = 1)
$current_state := 0

   select ($menu)
case 1
end select
    
end if

if ($EVENT_NOTE = $keyswitch2 or $menu = 2)
    $current_state := 1
select ($menu
case 2
end select
    
end if

end on


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  • EvilDragon
    EvilDragon Moderator Posts: 1,023 mod
    Answer ✓

    This can be much simpler.


    on init
    declare const $NUM_KS := 2
    declare const $FIRST_KS := 0

    declare $i

    declare ui_menu $menu

    while ($i < $NUM_KS)
        add_menu_item($i, "Ethereal " & $i, $i)
        inc($i)
    end while

    make_persistent($menu)
end on

on note
    if (in_range($EVENT_NOTE, $FIRST_KS, $FIRST_KS + $NUM_KS - 1))
        $menu := $EVENT_NOTE - $FIRST_KS { this assumes the first menu entry value is always 0! }
        exit
    end if

    disallow_group($ALL_GROUPS)
    allow_group($menu)
end on

Answers

  • Kaiwan_NI
    Kaiwan_NI Administrator Posts: 2,562 admin

    @EvilDragon Can you help DaDrumBum1 with the scripting? 🙂

  • EvilDragon
    EvilDragon Moderator Posts: 1,023 mod
    Answer ✓

    This can be much simpler.


    on init
    declare const $NUM_KS := 2
    declare const $FIRST_KS := 0

    declare $i

    declare ui_menu $menu

    while ($i < $NUM_KS)
        add_menu_item($i, "Ethereal " & $i, $i)
        inc($i)
    end while

    make_persistent($menu)
end on

on note
    if (in_range($EVENT_NOTE, $FIRST_KS, $FIRST_KS + $NUM_KS - 1))
        $menu := $EVENT_NOTE - $FIRST_KS { this assumes the first menu entry value is always 0! }
        exit
    end if

    disallow_group($ALL_GROUPS)
    allow_group($menu)
end on
  • DaDrumBum1
    DaDrumBum1 Member Posts: 8 Member
    edited August 2022

    Thank you so much @EvilDragon!

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