uiSlider, uiLabel and dynamic group backgrounds

[oldgearguy]

New to Ctrlr, experienced programmer, so forgive me if this was discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find it (yet).
It seems to me that the only way to have full control over displayed values is to use a combination of uiSlider and uiLabel so that the slider values can range across whatever I need and I can display things like 3.75 kHz or 1125 ms. I am reluctant to use uiFixedSlider since I don't want to pre-populate 100 controls with 1000's of values (in some cases). If the slider/label combo is the best way, is there a method to grouping them together so that if I hide/move one component the other follows? I know I can create a group and put those two in it, but is there another way to gang controls/labels together?

The other area I'm looking at is dynamically changing the background image for a group. I see the uiGroupBackgroundImage property, but I didn't see any obvious method I can invoke to change that.

Thanks for any assistance. Hopefully, my next new post will be something folks can find useful rather than more questions.

[damiensellier]

Hi,

for the 1st one you can just set your min and max values, interval, decimal places and suffix like this :

The interval has to be linear or you'd need fixedValues otherwise. those new properties are available since ctrlrx 5.6.33.

For the second question I did not really understand the requirements.

For the 3rd question you'd need a LUA script to update uiGroupBackgroundImage with setProperty() from your desired callback :

	grpTarget = panel:getModulatorByName("your_group_name")
	grpTarget:getComponent():setProperty("uiGroupBackgroundImage", "bkg_image_name", false)

If you could post a demo panel I could show you directly on the panel.

Damien

[oldgearguy]

Damien, thank you for the response.

Your first answer is what I thought. The modulator will be sending that linear value out via MIDI, correct? So if the displayed value needs some math/transformation, then it will not work for me. In other words, if the MIDI value would be 72, but I need to display 137 Hz, I cannot use just a uiSlider.

For the 3rd, thank you - that is exactly what I needed.

The 2nd question is a grouping question. If I have 2 or more objects, is there any way to treat them as a single blob? I know I can put them into a group and then manipulate the group, but is there any other way?