Request, stop-play-record indicator

[Sexan]

Can someone please make a plugin that will read the transport bar and when its on stop blue background with big Stop text,play green background and rec red?Can this be done in JS?I need something like Big Clock but with Transport State status that will be on one screen.Thank you

[zorn]

time or measure ? we don't have access to bar info in js.

edit : on second thought, js might not be the most efficient for this; not only we don't have real bar info, but even displaying the time properly is not trivial (no display text size in js)

[Fabian]

Originally Posted by zorn

time or measure ? we don't have access to bar info in js.

??
The way I read the OP, it only concerns this (from http://reaper.fm/sdk/js/js.php#js_basic)

play_state
Context: @block, @sample
Usage: read-only
The current playback state of REAPER (0=stopped, <0=error, 1=playing, 2=paused, 5=recording, 6=record paused).

Or did I misunderstand?

[zorn]

at first, that's what i thought also, so tried this

desc: big play state
filename:0,stop.png
filename:1,play.png
filename:2,pause.png
filename:3,record.png
filename:4,recordpaused.png

@init
gfx_a = 1;

@block
rstate = play_state;

@gfx 100 100
rstate >= 0 ? (
	gfx_file = rstate;
	rstate >= 5 ? gfx_file-= 2;
	gfx_x = gfx_y = 0;
	gfx_blit(gfx_file, gfx_w/200, 0);
);

with according gfx files (width 200 pix, format png), and the track record armed, this should display the current state.
but Sexan, i think ?, needs all info that is in the big clock plus the play state.

[Sexan]

no I dont need info from big clock, I sayed like a big clock,window on its own with state information only play,record and stop with background,but there is a problem, when I open a JS plugin (or vst....) and drag it to the third monitor,all plugins I open next opens on that monitor so I need to drag them back.Is there any setting to lock plugin on the screen?Is it easier to code this plugin from python so its an extension?Thank you very much for helping

[Blechi]

Be sure to record arm the track that contains zorn's JS.
(select 'Record: disable (Input monitoring only)' if you don't want to record on this track)
The reason is that the play_state variable ignores the pause button if the track is not record armed.
See here.

[zorn]

no I dont need info from big clock

ah ok, so here are the dummy gfx files i used; modify them to taste, if you wish (they are just red text over transparent background)
http://stash.reaper.fm/oldsb/867660/bigStatefiles.rar

[Sexan]

can you please put the plugin?I have trouble with the code reaper doesn't see the file when I put it in effecs folder.I copyed the code you posted above

[zorn]

sure, here's the plugin and the grafic files, unrar and drop in Reaper\Effects directory : http://stash.reaper.fm/oldsb/867704/bigState.rar

[Sexan]

Ok I dont know whats wrong but reaper doesn't see this.I just downloaded drumreplacer and its fine

[zorn]

i've installed from http://stash.reaper.fm/oldsb/867704/bigState.rar and it works here, so.. no idea what's happening on your system.

[Sexan]

ok it works on 3.45 , I was testing on 3.54rc1 something was wrong with it,Thank you!The only thing whats bothering me is when I insert a plugin and drag it to the third monitor all plugins open on that monitor they are floating and I have to drag them back on my working monitor,but this only happens when I open the plugins from mixers Track Inser FX becouse it sets them to float default,but from FX button its ok the plugins are on the main screen and in FX window.But every plugin that I set to float goes to third window.Is this a bug?

[cerberus]

sexan, three headed monitoring is not all that common, perhaps you
should document the bugs carefully and report them in the bug tracker?

[akademie]

Hello,
I would like to ask any experienced JS programmer (or "zorn" directly ?), if could help me (or better write it for me, and maybo others too) with a JS plugin, that would be like a BigState (which displays set of Transport images in context to actual "play_state"), but this plugin would display set (lets say 20..?) of pictures, that are shown dependant on position of play cursor in timeline = "play_position".

It would display picture 1 when play_position is in the range A to B (e.g. A=0 sec, B=195 sec), picture 2 when play_position is in the range of C to D (C= 196 sec, D= 325 sec) etc. Times (play_position) would be entered in seconds (typed (preferably) or slidered), pictures could be assigned directly in JS code (for example file1=playstate_01.png ... file20=playstate_20.png.

Thank you very much
akademie