Movable containers in active template

[tput73]

Imagine not only smart containers that resize on a button press
but temporary appearing containers with needed
controls at precise times then movable while template
is in use based on needed
access to other objects.
T

[Softcore]

Perfectly doable with MIDI_ARGS!

[Phil999]

actually I'm working on such a template right now. Freely movable containers that can be shown or hidden. Just testing the concept (the 'go to front'/'go to back' command is not available which makes things less versatile), but so far it looks promising. Moving containers seems only possible with the Gesture object. I tried with Multiball and Ringarea, but it wasn't good. Put the Gesture object into the container on top of all other elements and hide/reveal it with a switch, then write a script to move the container. Using acceleration at max (1) makes the motion a bit more intuitive.

[Joe Soap]

Dammit Phil, I was hoping nobody would beat me to that particular punch!

It's nice isn't it?

The ballistics aren't fantastic but with a little dialling in, not too bad.

Resizeable is nice too.

[Phil999]

yes it's quite nice, I see that we often are restricted to a certain space, e.g. in a container, to fill with controller elements for a VST/AU. The format doesn't match, the colours are off, it is not so inviting. With movable containers you can make better plugin GUI's that should make the whole experience more intuitive.

[Joe Soap]

Yep - it allows for all sorts of things we don't usually see currently.

[Joe Soap]

Churlish not to post some, really.

Code in this inspired by / borrowed from, AFAIK, Softcore, Macciza, maybe some Phil999. Can't think of anyone else.

Code © CC-BY-NC-SA*

[tput73]

Holy chicken mole!
Y'all amaze me nearly everything I
Can think of is possible with this forum's
brilliant problem solving!

One problem, with these amazing moveable
containers as well as the second version
Of the smart container, syncing
with computer to edit, saving and sending
back to iPad causes these containers to
reset their position to the upper left corner
of the screen everytime??
How can I fix this?
T

[Phil999]

Churlish not to post some

you're right. I wanted to post my approach, but it's not finished yet (it's in a bigger template). It's behaving the same way as your approach, scripts are similar (maybe a bit less elegant as yours).

Looks like we've been working on the same thing.

[Phil999]

One problem, with these amazing moveable
containers as well as the second version
Of the smart container, syncing
with computer to edit, saving and sending
back to iPad causes these containers to
reset their position to the upper left corner
of the screen everytime??
How can I fix this?
T

to remember the last positon, the 'rect'-attribute of the container must be saved in a variable.