possilbe to open/close multiple menus at once

[newtfish]

Hi,

Im wondering if there is a way to open multiple menus at once in lemur and if possible how to go about it? It would also be great if I could close the menus when an item is selected from any of the menus.

Cheers

N

[artsUNMUTED]

I don't think it is possible - I was looking for this solution as well. Changing remotely the selection value doesn't close the menu - just changes the first displayed item.

[lABl]

Hi
you can use pads to make that, how many items there are in you menu object it that is not ask too much?

Let us know if you need any help with that, we can post something here.

Cheers,
AB

[artsUNMUTED]

@AB - can pads close menus? I guess you meant we can use pads instead of menus, right?

[lABl]

You can check this topic to get an idea using pads like a menu:

http://liine.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1552

This example would be to have a pseudo-horizontal menu, but would be easy to make it vertical too.

Cheers,

[lABl]

@AB - can pads close menus? I guess you meant we can use pads instead of menus, right?

Opps sorry , message crossing, yes that is what I meant.

[newtfish]

Thanks for the ideas. The menu has 128 different items, e.g. square, sine, triangle. I think I wont be able to fit 128 pads on the screen and then the pads only go up to 64 items, so ill need to split this across two sets of pads. Im guessing the only usable option is to use a fader, but then the user has to scroll through all the other options to find the selection.

Such a shame lemur doesnt support more than 32 menu items, or scrolling menus

[lABl]

I see, so what about to use a 16x8 or 8x16 Pads matrix, you will have 128 options there, you could follow the menu principle, a button which opens the pad grid, select the entries and close the Pad grid, updating the button with the selection.

Just some thoughs,

[artsUNMUTED]

To create the menu like experience with switches, mask the matrix with a large text object, create text objects for all names, script it for highlighting etc.

[Joe Soap]

Scrolling menus can be built by combining the techniques already mentioned with the scrolling example given in the manual (page 79 of the one I'm looking @ - it may have changed by a page or so in later editions).

Further adventures in scripting that basic menu-in-a-scrollbox should yield a much more traditional / familiar menu experience.