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ueah
ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Dec 29th, 2008, 10:03am  
1.- It's possible to put spaces in text buttons?
2.- It's possible to represent Lowercase's texts?

I try to do:
controlP5.addSlider("slider speed",0,10,5,10,10,30,14);
--> but it represents SLIDERSPEED
 (without spaces and uppercase)

Thanks in advance!!
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Eric F.
Re: ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Reply #1 - Jan 3rd, 2009, 2:51am  
i asked this previously but never got an answer.  easiest fix is to use underscore (e.g. "SLIDER_SPEED") instead of a space.  you can also hide the label and put your own text in.  you can use the textLabel function in controlP5 (http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/examples/ControlP5textlabel/ControlP5Textlabel.pde), or you can use the same font "standard_07_57," available from http://www.miniml.com for $10, or AdvoCut which looks almost identical at 10pt, includes lowercase, and is free (http://www.dafont.com/advocut.font).  i believe andreas, author of controlP5, intends one day put in full font support but hasn't had time yet...
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sojamo
Re: ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Reply #2 - Jan 4th, 2009, 5:36am  
when adding a slider (any controller) the given name should not include a space. the reason for this is that controlP5 tries to find a method or a field with the given name and links it to the controller in case of a match to automatically forward any changes.
in the example above "slider speed" therefore defaults back to "sliderspeed" and acts as a named id for controlP5.
by default the caption label of a controller will have this name, but this can be changed by using:

Code:

 Slider s = controlP5.addSlider("sliderSpeed",0,10,5,10,10,30,14); 
  s.captionLabel().set("slider speed");
  s.captionLabel().toUpperCase(false);


@eforman, no time yet is correct, thanks for reminding me Smiley
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ueah
Re: ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Reply #3 - Jan 12th, 2009, 5:34pm  
Thanks. We will wait for new fonts changes in this nice library!!!!!
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Eric F.
Re: ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Reply #4 - Jan 14th, 2009, 6:07am  
cool.  it would be nice at some point to have these functions in the documentation.  if they are there, i couldn't find them.  

one question - how do you do this with a Button, since you can't use the object type Button as processing throws an error - "type Button is ambiguous"?

e.g.

Code:
Button b = controlP5.addButton("Go",0,50,50,20,20);
b.captionLabel().set("Go do that thing");


also, can you clear up what the first parameter after the name in the Button constructor is for?

thx
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sojamo
Re: ControlP5 SPACEs in texts buttons???
Reply #5 - Jan 14th, 2009, 12:33pm  
Eric F. wrote on Jan 14th, 2009, 6:07am:
cool.  it would be nice at some point to have these functions in the documentation.  if they are there, i couldn't find them.  

you are right, they arent there. needs to be added under the Controller documentation.


Eric F. wrote on Jan 14th, 2009, 6:07am:
one question - how do you do this with a Button, since you can't use the object type Button as processing throws an error - "type Button is ambiguous"

use
Code:

controlP5.Button b = controlP5.addButton("Go",0,50,50,20,20);
b.setCaptionLabel("Go do that thing");

controlP5 here is the name of the package.
with version 0.3.7 use b.setCaptionLabel("text") instead of b.captionLabel().set("text"), there is an issue with cutting off a label with the latter.


Eric F. wrote on Jan 14th, 2009, 6:07am:
also, can you clear up what the first parameter after the name in the Button constructor is for

this parameter is the value of a button and can be accessed e.g. in controlEvent like this:
Code:

void controlEvent(ControlEvent theEvent) {
  println(theEvent.controller().value());
}


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