knob tooltips

[aombk]

hi everybody, i have a question.

i would like my knobs and selectors to have a tooltip appear while i mouse over. i tried to mess with MOver MArea MGUI etc. i could use some help with that. can someone point me to the right direction?

thanks

i have been using reaktor for years. there are things that are easy with reaktor but hard with stoneflow and vice versa

[Nubeat7]

hallo aombk,

you need the mOver primitive in the knob area (don't forget to enable mousemoves at the mgui primitive!)
then use the boolean-output to show the tooltip textview at some higher level..

something like this..

[aombk]

great! thank you very much

[aombk]

ok, found a way to do it, but i dont like the way it looks. and its difficult to set up and edit etc.

on the other hand, i noticed the DropList component. it doesnt work for tooltips because you need to click in order to exit the droplist. but a simplified version of it that just displays text and has bool input would be great. do you know of something like this maybe?

from what i understand, one can create his own components somehow? or modify existing ones? or you think i could make a request for a component like this to the developers?

thanks.

[Spogg]

Would this help?

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3809&start=10#p21386

Cheers

Spogg

[aombk]

this is great, thanks
though i downloaded your synthmaker greatest hits collection and browsed through it a couple of times i missed this one for some reason.

but i am starting to abandon this tool tip idea.

i attach a screenshot of my synth.

tracking the mouse for all those knobs is not a good idea as i figured out.
the most important problem is that the gui of the synth freezes when i move the mouse.

i guess i have to find another way of explaining how the synth works.

[Spogg]

Did you try this in the VSTi export though?

I found that the exports work much more smoothly than in the Flowstone edit environment for some reason.

Cheers

Spogg

[aombk]

yes i did and things are slightly better but the synth is already using too much cpu

[Spogg]

yes i did and things are slightly better but the synth is already using too much cpu

The synth looks amazing! It reminds me of some of the stuff I've made. But it's not orange.

Even if it uses most of my CPU I'd love to have a go with it. You can always render and freeze tracks in the DAW, so as long as it actually works while recording with one instance, I don't think it matters too much. Hey, I think I can hear tulamide...

Cheers

Spogg

[Nubeat7]

from what i understand, one can create his own components somehow? or modify existing ones? or you think i could make a request for a component like this to the developers?

thats what FS is done for! maybe you should read the manual...

i also would recommend to start with some smaller projects to get the basics first, there are loads of informations about cpu optimizing to find here in the forum.. but before you should know how to do simple things like a label box with background and/or frame and fontsize before..

you also could place a infofield somewhere in your synth which always shows some short info about the actual used control...