ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

michuneo

ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

in Contributed Library Questions • 1 year ago

Hey all

I really like the controlP5 library (I use the latest dev snapshot release). However I didn't figured out how I can mix tabbed elements and "static" elements.

To illustrate my needs, I want some drop down lists, which should be ALWAYS visible. And there is a tabbed area, where different elements are shown.

can someone guide me into the right direction?

cheers and thanks

michu

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andreas.s..

Re: ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

1 year ago

Hi, you can move your dropdownlist (and any other controller) to the 'global' tab. here, controllers will always be visible and active.

Slider s = controlP5.addSlider("sliderValue",0,255,128,100,200,10,100);
s.moveTo("global");

Khalid

Re: Re: ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

1 year ago

Hi,

This is a related question. I would like to add a DropDownList to my second tab. Here are the relevant chunks of codes (basically copy-paste from the DropDownList and Tab library examples):

// create a second DropdownList
cp5.addDropdownList("myList-d2")
.setPosition(300, 100)
.setSize(200,200) ;
// other code skipped
// arrange controller in separate tabs
cp5.getController("myList-d1").moveTo("Second Tab");

However, I get a NullPointerException with the following details:

Exception in thread "Animation Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException

at ta01.setup(ta01.java:138)

at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(Unknown Source)

at processing.core.PApplet.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

What is interesting is, I cm able to move a Slider to the second tab just fine:

cp5.getController("slider").moveTo("Second Tab");

Would appreciate any input!

-Khalid

michuneo

Re: ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

1 year ago

Wow, thanks andres for your quick reply and library, a very nice piece of code!

michuneo

Re: ControlP5: Mix Tab Elements and "always visible elements"

1 year ago

Argh, I found another issue I cannot figure out myself. I created a litte component myself (a color picker which sends the selected color as 24bit value) ( https://github.com/neophob/PixelController/blob/master/src/main/java/com/neophob/sematrix/output/gui/elements/SimpleColorPicker.java)

and added it to my main window:

SimpleColorPicker scp = new SimpleColorPicker(cp5, (ControllerGroup)cp5.controlWindow.getTabs().get(1), GuiElement.COLOR_PICKER.toString(), 0, 380, 160, 14);

cp5.register(null, "SimpleColorPicker", scp);

scp.addListener(listener);

unfortunally my eventlistener gets not notified when something happend. the controlEvent gets called in my component, but no event is fired? has this something todo with this fancy registerProperty method?

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