Text Editor

Texteditor creates a text editor that can be used to send strings to Csound. Hitting return when in single line mode will send the string to Csound on a named string channel while pressing the up and down buttons when the texteditor is in focus will toggle through the previous strings that have been sent. When in "multiline" mode, press command and return to send the string data to Csound.

texteditor wrap(val), readonly(val), doubleClickTogglesEdit(val), caretColour("colour"), scrollbars(val), active(val), alpha(val), bounds(x, y, width, height), channel("chan"), colour("colour"), fontColour("colour"), identChannel("channel"), popup(val), rotate(radians, pivotx, pivoty), visible(val), toFront(), widgetArray("chan", number),

Specific Identifiers

wrap(val) Turns text wrapping on of off. This is set to 0 by default, so no wrapping of text is done

readonly(val) Sets the widget to readonly mode.

doubleClickTogglesEdit(val) Used to toggle editing in a text editor. Double clicking on the text editor will toggle readonly mode.

caretColour("colour") This sets the caret colour of a text editor. Any CSS or HTML colour string can be passed to this identifier. The colour identifier can also be passed an RBG, or RGBA value. All channel values must be between 0 and 255. For instance colour(0, 0, 255) will create a blue, while colour(0, 255, 0, 255) will create a green with an alpha channel set to full.

scrollbars(val) Enables or disables scrollbars. Enabled by default with soundfiler and keyboard widgets. Disabled by default with texteditor.

Common Identifiers

active(val) Will deactivate a control if 0 is passed. Controls which are deactivate can still be updated from Csound.

alpha(val) A value between 0 and 1 will set the alpha blend value for the entire component. Can be useful if you need to fade widgets in and out.

bounds(x, y, width, height) integer values that set position and size on screen(in pixels).

channel("chan") "chan" is the name of the channel that Cabbage will communicate with Csound on. The current value of this widget can be retrieved in Csound using a chnget opcode, or can be set using a chnset opcode.

colour("colour") This sets the main colour. Any CSS or HTML colour string can be passed to this identifier. The colour identifier can also be passed an RBG, or RGBA value. All channel values must be between 0 and 255. For instance colour(0, 0, 255) will create a blue, while colour(0, 255, 0, 255) will create a green with an alpha channel set to full.

fontColour("colour") Sets the colour of the font. In the case of slider this sets teh colour of the font in the value textBox if it is shown.

identChannel("channel") [!!! DEPRECATED !!!] Although identifier channels still work, they are no longer supported. Please use the new guiMode("queue") system and the cabbageSet opcodes instead. They are far more efficient then identifiers channel.

popup(val) This identifier, used with an image or groupbox will convert the plant into a popup plant. The plant will not be shown on the instrument's main interface, but will instead appear when the user sets visible to 1. < DAWs treat popup dialogue windows in different ways. As a result, you may notice inconsistent behaviour when running your instruments as plugins across a variety of different hosts.

rotate(radians, pivotx, pivoty) Rotates the widget by a number of radians(2xPI=full rotation). pivotx and pivoty will determine the rotation pivot points, where 0, 0 represents the component's top-left position.

visible(val) A value of 0 will cause the widget to become invisible. Widgets have their visibility set to 1 by default.

toFront() Brings a widget to the front of the z order. This identifier takses no arguments and is only intended for use with identifier channels.

widgetArray("chan", number) [!!! DEPRECATED !!!] Deprecated. Please see the section on Managing large numbers of widgets

Example

<Cabbage>
form caption("Texteditor Example") size(380, 300), guiMode("queue"), colour(2, 145, 209) pluginId("def1")

texteditor bounds(18, 20, 341, 204) fontSize(16), channel("orcText"), scrollbars(1), wrap(1),  fontColour(124, 210, 0), colour(0, 0, 0, 100)
</Cabbage>
<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
-n -d -+rtmidi=NULL -M0 -m0d --midi-key=4 --midi-velocity-amp=5
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
; Initialize the global variables. 
ksmps = 16
nchnls = 2
0dbfs = 1


; Rory Walsh 2021 
;
; License: CC0 1.0 Universal
; You can copy, modify, and distribute this file, 
; even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 

instr 1

    SText  = 

    cabbageSet "orcText", "text", SText
    cabbageSet "scoText", "text",  "schedule(1, 0, 2, 300)"

    SText cabbageGetValue "orcText"
    if changed:k(SText) == 1 then
        event "i", 2, 0, 1
    endif

    SText cabbageGetValue "scoText"
    if changed:k(SText) == 1 then
        event "i", 3, 0, 1
    endif
endin

instr 2
    SText chnget "orcText"
    prints SText
    ires compilestr SText 
    print ires ; -1 as could not compile
endin

instr 3
    SText chnget "scoText"
    prints SText
    ires compilestr SText 
    print ires ; -1 as could not compile
endin
</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i1 0 z
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>