What is the Breakpoint edit attribute for?

[shimoda]

Nowhere is this shown in the manual that I can find.

[Macciza]

Hi
Chapter 12.1 Object Reference
If edit is activated, new points can be created in real-time . . .

Further to that (upon investigation)
the Live Editing Property if set allows editing points via double-tapping
the Edit attribute if set allows editing of points via a single tap

If you set it to say Pads.x than pressing the Pad will allow you to edit the points

Cheers
MM

[lABl]

the atributte is 'editable'.

setattribute(Breakpoint,'editable',x);

For example to control that with a button:

1- Create a switch (or custombutton)
2- inside create a script for example liveEdit
3- set execution with x variable.
4- insert the attribute line

setattribute(Breakpoint,'editable',x); //guessing your object is called Breakpoint

Now, if button is off, you can't add/remove new points, if button is ON you can add/remove points.

Or using a Pad as Macciza mentioned.

Is that what you're looking for?

A small advice that may be useful in this case, it to have a monitor to watch all attributes for an object, just type getattributelist(Breakpoint) in monitor value field, that will return all the attribute for that object.

Hope that helps,
Cheers,
AB

[Macciza]

Thanks AB
Was meaning to mention that - the attribute is indeed 'editable', which alters the Live Editing property.
This gives the double-tap edit method.

The other option is the 'edit' behaviour - you can set its value to 0 or 1 or directly to something like Pads.x which will yield 0 or 1.
It gives a single-tap edit mede when enabled.

As AB points out using Monitors for debug is a powerful tool - there are some sophisticated demos of it sprinkled through out the Forum and Library.
I have a Monitor set up ready in my Library for quick info - easy to pull up and delete as needed.

[shimoda]

Indeed I have found monitors useful, I spent several minutes with one and the rgb/hsv functions finding some color codes to use. Several other uses yesterday for that matter. Thanks for the info, I knew about the Live editing thing, but the rest is good to know. Seems like a wiki here would be a nice asset. Would be willing to contribute.

[lABl]

Hey Macciza,

No problem, I thought he was asking about of Live Edit attribute, you know..my english skills

of course monitors are really useful, I always have a debug(this) main script where this is conected to Monitor.value = this;, so I can test data (if needed) from any other script, singletons or arrays, instead of typing variables/expressions/attributesdirectly in the monitor object.

Cheers,