Help with... selectClip on cursorClip. ?

[Kirkwood West]

I'm looking to select a specific clip in the ClipLauncher and don't know how to do it on the cursor cursor clip.

From the Api Manual...

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CursorClip
void selectClip (Clip clip)

I'm not sure where to derive the clip from? I have a list of clip slots in the clip launcher bank and don't know how to get to it...

[moss]

I'm looking to select a specific clip in the ClipLauncher and don't know how to do it on the cursor cursor clip.

From the Api Manual...

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CursorClip
void selectClip (Clip clip)

I'm not sure where to derive the clip from? I have a list of clip slots in the clip launcher bank and don't know how to get to it...

AFAIK CursorClip is currently the only clip. Yes, pretty weird.
To solve your question you need to use Slots. Get the slotbank from the trank, then get the slot and call select on it.

[Kirkwood West]

So what i'm trying to do here is set the name of the clip in a clip slot...

This is some really funky code... It works but is unreliable if there are any gui interventions while this bit of code is running.

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   var track = this.trackBank.getItemAt(0);
   var launcherslotBank = track.clipLauncherSlotBank();
   var slot = launcherslotBank.getItemAt(this.playingSlotIndex)
   launcherslotBank.showInEditor(this.playingSlotIndex);
   this.cursorClip.setName(string);

To be honest i'm not sure why this actually works...
1. i have a trackbank of 1 with 128 scenes.
2. Get the launcher slot bank...
3. get the current slot playing in the bank. (this doesn't seem to be really used in the code)
4. LauncherSlotBankshowInEditor( index )...
5. set the name.

Maybe i even asked this on the forum before. Its unfortunate that name() on the clip launcher slot seems to be a read only value and the only way to change it is to use a cursorClip.

[Kirkwood West]

I knew that this was discussed before to some degree...

Get name of clip
viewtopic.php?f=268&t=526350&p=7742586

How to get Clip instance without cursor ?
viewtopic.php?f=268&t=503002&p=7089715

In addition to being able to set the name of a clip from the clip launcher, it seems like there is only one active cursor clip at a time? does this mean bitwig is limited to only one device to edit a clip at once?

[moss]

So what i'm trying to do here is set the name of the clip in a clip slot...

This is some really funky code... It works but is unreliable if there are any gui interventions while this bit of code is running.

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   var track = this.trackBank.getItemAt(0);
   var launcherslotBank = track.clipLauncherSlotBank();
   var slot = launcherslotBank.getItemAt(this.playingSlotIndex)
   launcherslotBank.showInEditor(this.playingSlotIndex);
   this.cursorClip.setName(string);

To be honest i'm not sure why this actually works...
1. i have a trackbank of 1 with 128 scenes.
2. Get the launcher slot bank...
3. get the current slot playing in the bank. (this doesn't seem to be really used in the code)
4. LauncherSlotBankshowInEditor( index )...
5. set the name.

Maybe i even asked this on the forum before. Its unfortunate that name() on the clip launcher slot seems to be a read only value and the only way to change it is to use a cursorClip.

Step 4 might not be finished when 5 is executed. Remember these are all asynchroneous calls, even if they look like synchronous ones! Therefore, you should wrap the last call into a host.scheduleTask, which means it gets called in the "next processing round".

[moss]

In addition to being able to set the name of a clip from the clip launcher, it seems like there is only one active cursor clip at a time? does this mean bitwig is limited to only one device to edit a clip at once?

No, but you must create/configure the cursor to not follow the Bitwig selection otherwise they will all point to the same clip.

[Kirkwood West]

Got it! will put some tasks in there to fix. maybe one day the items.name() in the clipLauncherSlot will use the SettableStringValue class instead of Value. Would simplify this a bit.