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tearing my hair out

i want to control a fader that is driven by a script involving time
it means i need to use an On Frame execution - i think - but this
creates all sorts of secondary problems with my switch to enable/disable the fader movement

so i've reduced it to something very simple - i think i'm missing something conceptually
i've tried a hundred strategies all with varying and surprising outcomes
usually resulting in my switch being ineffective or the movement only occurring at the instant i press the switch (like a sample and hold)

try this and tell me the missing concept to save my hair, not much left

One fader One switch
Script as follows (in Fader)
Fader.x = time % 1;

No matter what i try with the Switch.x value i cannot control the Fader or Script to play nice

i just want to use the switch to turn of the motion, how do you do it, it MUST be simple simple simple

things are a bit more complicated in my real world example, but this example reveals my roadblock just as well

any hints ?!

cheers

This will configure the switch to turn your script on / off - script attached to Fader, exec onframe:

if(Switches.x){
x = time % 1;
}




Script attached to Switches, exec onframe:

if(x){
Fader.x = time % 1;
}

Perfect thanks, that should be an easy approach to incorporate. I wish I fully understood why the seemingly logical strategies I tried didn't give me such a responsive UX, but grateful to have an example of how to organise the scripts. Thanks again : - )

It might be a good idea to post a couple of examples of your previous attempts so we* can walk through the logic - though the basics of what I posted are covered in the manual:

Chapter 11 - Advanced Scripting
11.1 Conditional statements
• if
When the parser finds an if in the Script panel, it expects a boolean condition, that is, a logical proposition having one of two values: true (non-zero) or false (zero). If the condition is true, the parser executes the single line or block of code immediately after the condition, which, in the case of a block of code, will be enclosed within braces {}. If the condition is false, the statement in the single line or block of code is ignored.

* Not necessarily me, I'm crap at this!