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Getting Values From Combobox

#1

Hi, I’m working on my graduation project and I want to learn about how I can read a value from the combobox selection. I kind of learned my way around the GUI editor and managed to create a combobox with the list of items i want but I have no idea how I can access those from inside the code. What should I do?

#2

I see two options for that:

1

You can get the current index of the item selected and then get the value based on the array you defined in the code.

2

You can use “channelType(“string”)” to get the string instead of the index.

Cf: Reading combobox strings

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#3

Thank you. I copied this part from the link,

 if chnget:k("waveshape") == 1 then
	a1 oscili .75, p4

Would this work by itself? After I match the channel name of the combobox and the “waveshape” part of course.

#4

If I understand well this block is executed everytime “waveshape” changes, so you don’t actually get a value from it.

Here is a minimal example to show how I would have done it (however there are probably better options)

comboboxtext.csd

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#5

I’m also new to coding in general so I’ll go and make some mistakes now. Thanks again.

#6

In fact, your understanding here is correct, The a1 oscili... code will be read for as long as waveshape == 1. If you post a more complete example w can take a look over it for you.

#7

My bad I misunderstood the chnget:k syntax, I thought it would return 1 when the channel “waveshape” changes but I was wrong!

#8

You probably got it mixed up with a changed opcode which is used all over the examples too.

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