Open Stage Control Basic Widget Questions for Beginners

Community Usage questions
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Hi OSC Community,

I thought I'd start a basics for beginners thread to better understand OSC for myself, but also to help anyone else who is new to OSC. As I continue to build different aspects of my template, I come across certain issues, syntax problems, or ways widgets work that I have questions about.

I'm trying to make a tap button that sends a midi cc message of a specific value. In this case, I'd like a button to send channel 1, cc1 value of 64.

I've made a button, but how come this doesn't work?

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Cheers

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The button sends its on and off values only.
When in tap mode, it only sends the on value.
So, just change the on prop to 64.

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Good to know, thank you. So the "value" field for any type of button does nothing?

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It does, but mainly for dynamically changing its value.
For instance, you can have another widget, that in a specific condition, sets the button value to on or off.

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Got another basic question about text and the textarea widgets.

I would like to label my faders with the CC# but also the description of what the control does. I can use multiple text widgets per fader...but I wanted to know if there's a more simplified way, since my description will typically be a single word.

The question is can I add a line break into the text widget? So the Top line reads "CC#" and beneath that it reads "Expression" for example.

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Yes, you can use Shift + Enter to add a line in a common prop.

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Thank you, I ended up using separate text widgets. Unless there's a way to use shift + enter, and adjust the line spacing further

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You can adjust the line-height property in the text widget CSS prop, like so:

label {
    line-height: 1.25em;
}
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Got another question about buttons. Would the following require a custom module?

I have multiple faders...let's say 10 that control different CC messages. They all have a default position value set.

I would like to have a single "tap" button that sends the current (or default) value of all faders. Are there any pointers you can give me on how to accomplish this?

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I'm practicing using buttons to modify other widget properties. I came across

getVar(widgetId, variableName)

setVar(widgetId, variableName, newValue)

however am not able to get it to work properly. Is there a syntax issue or am I approaching this incorrectly?

"Faders" is the widgetID of the panel.

As an example, I have a panel with multiple faders.
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I've created a button elsewhere and in
Script: On Value:
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But the panel won't change visibility upon button press.

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When using scripting, ids, vars, props names, etc, should be used between quotes, like this:

if (get("button_2" == 1) {
    setVar("Faders", "fadersVis", false)
}
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Answering your previous question:
You can use the linkId prop, setting a button to be the master and all the faders to be slaves (prepending the linkId name with >> or << respectively)
I've added this functionality to the previous fader example I did before.
Here is the new session demonstrating it:
fader_composite.json (11.9 KB)

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Thank you for this, I notice the button value determines where the faders get reset to. What if you wanted to have different faders "reset" at different values?

ex:
Expression default value (and reset) should be 127
Mod default value(and reset) 64

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Ah interesting now I see the manual says "as a string" meaning quotes. Thank you again. Also, if you wouldn't mind, could you show me an example of this same functionality but using a custom module?

I think the syntax issues are what's making it tough to learn..as I'm just starting out. Anywhere to point me to with more examples to better study this?

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and it gets more complex :sweat_smile:
Not sure if it's the best approach, but it works fine.
Basically I created some variables to reset faders groups, and I'm using them as linkdId masters.
Then, in the button, I removed the linkId and added an onValue script to set the variables groups to their corresponding values.
Here is the session example (too lazy to rename it, lol)
fader_composite.json (12.4 KB)

This is only one way of solving the problem.

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Well, learning a language is quite a long journey. The hardest thing is not the syntax, but to make your mind thinking logically. I suggest starting with the basic concepts, operators and types definition, like string, boolean, array, object, etc.

This is a good resource:

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