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sully
when to use toggle, bang , button and tab?
Oct 20th, 2009, 2:33pm  
I am using 4 ControlP5 buttons to control which part of the interface of my program the user sees. When I then go through the program and use other buttons and sliders within these interfaces the 4 controlling buttons stop working properly. They just flash up the requested interface for a sec before returning to draw the one it just got stuck on. Why is that happening? Should I be using tabs instead? or toggle? From the examples on the ControlP5 page I don't quite get what the difference between all of them is.
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sojamo
Re: when to use toggle, bang , button and tab?
Reply #1 - Oct 20th, 2009, 9:11pm  
hi there,
not sure if i can be of help regarding the flashing issues based on the info you provide. but here some info regarding tabs, buttons, bangs, toggles

Tab. a tab is a container for a set of controllers, activating a tab will hide any other tab and will only make controllers visible for the currently active tab. Only one tab can be active at a time. Tabs are displayed at the top of a window.

Button, Bang, Toggle do look very similar, but have different effects when used.
Button a button will trigger an event when released. You can assign values (int or float) to a button which can be accessed when a button event is broadcasted as a controlEvent.
Bang a bang is very similar to a button and might be obsolete by now. by default an event is triggered when pressed. The initial idea behind a bang is that it will trigger a function inside your main program without passing any values to that function - demonstrated in the bang example.
Toggle a toggle functions like a switch and has only 2 states instead of an assigned int/float value. a state can be true or false. When changing the state of a toggle this information will be passed to your program and can be accessed within the void controlEvent(ControlEvent theEvent) {} function.

best,
andreas
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PhiLho 
Re: when to use toggle, bang , button and tab?
Reply #2 - Oct 20th, 2009, 11:47pm  
FYI, this is not really a syntax question, it belongs more to Other Libraries section where library authors can better see questions related to their work.
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adnil
Re: when to use toggle, bang , button and tab?
Reply #3 - Oct 21st, 2009, 1:22am  
so i should really be using 4 tabs to show different interfaces containing different buttons and sliders? Instead of using 4 buttons to control which of  the 4 interfaces is shown?
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