The 2 screenshots above show how I have tried to configure buttons 9-12 (the 4 small buttons below the LCD screen). The 1st shows how button 11 for page 4 is set-up (with the same setting on button 11 for page 1-4. The 2nd shows how button 9 for page 1 is set-up… again the same setup for button 9 for all 4 pages.
The aim is to emulate the pressing of the little utility button on the bottom edge of the controller - ie press button 9, changes to page 1 (from any other page), through to pressing button 12 changes to page 4 (from any other page).
That is not what happens…some examples:
from page 1 I press button 10 (expectation is change to page 2): Nothing happens
from page 4 I press button 9 (expectation is change to page 1): nothing happens first press, but 2nd press it changes to page 2!!
from page 2 I press button 12 (expectation is change to page 4): Stays on page 2 and loses device connection ( “No device” in info panel). Grid editor needs to be restarted as well as the controller power cycled. (I reported this final issue in my previous post (Java Error when launching Grid Editor (also previous hanging DAW)
This is not making any sense. Am I doing something wrong or is there a serious problem with my set-up???
Try moving all the Page Change code to the Release section.
I think what’s happening is that when you Press the button and change to a page the button gets stuck in its Pressed state. This is Why it requires two presses to switch again when you return to the same Page.
Ok - I have done that and it seems to work, but is not great. Having to put page_load() on the Release is not the behaviour I want. I was actually looking into an approach where I have a different page load on Press , and another on Release (to return to the previous page…thereby enabling me to jump between encoder and button set-ups quickly on the fly:
Control the mapped parameters on page 1…Press and hold page_load() to change page…then tweaking the mapper parameters on page 2…Release to go back playing with Page 1.
So it would be could if this could be looked at - it strikes me that maybe the page_load() code needs some tweaking to accomodate this timing issue.
In addition I am still getting this weirdness:
Pressing (and releasing) button 9 or 10 (to select Pg1 and 2 respectively, has quite variable timing to take effect, usually fastish, but can occasionally be slower for some reason.
Pressing and releasing button 11, is ALWAYS slower than button 9 or 10
Pressing button 12 ALWAYS caused the grid editor to lose connection with the controller (No Device displayed in top right), and all page_load buttons stop working. I have to disconnect controller and restart editor.
Something is still not 1005 right here. Please help.
