Hello, I’m working on a custom DSP plugin for FMOD Studio, and I’ve been wondering if there is a way to hide or grey-out dials or other deck widgets depending on an enumerated int?
My plugin is a wave shaper with various modes, some of which have different controls to the others. I don’t want users to be confused by the presence of an irrelevant “Ratio” dial when using the Hard Clip setting, so ideally I would like to lock or grey-out or hide the controls that aren’t used in the currently-selected mode.
I haven’t been able to find much about this in the documentation, and I’m not sure if it’s a feature that doesn’t exist or if there just isn’t documentation on how to do it. Or maybe it’s just because I’m not very familiar with javascript, and it’s a very obvious and straightforward thing if you know the language?
I don’t think there is a way to do this actually- the widgets used for plugins are deckWidgets, which are different to widgets used in our modals, and are missing key functionality for conditional bypassing:
- Callbacks for embedding js, such as
onclick
- Toggleable active state, such as
setEnabled
- An API for retrieving existing deckWidgets, such as
findWidget
So, no good solution at this stage unfortunately. It looks like deckWidgets are supposed to handle a one-to-one link between parameters and UI, and nothing else. I will put in a feature request to add more of the widget api to the deckWidget API- thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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Cool, thanks for confirming that, if I know it’s currently a hard limitation I’ll work around it.
For my current project I might just look at breaking it up into two or more separate effects plugins, instead of trying to make one thing with multiple functions that require separate controls.