Cabbage Syntax

Cabbage widgets can loosely be split into two groups, interactive widgets and non-interactive widgets. Each interactive widget, such as a slider, a button, etc., will be accessible in a plugin host. The non-interactive widgets, such as a groupboxe or image, can only be controlled manually, or via Csound. Software channels are used in order for Cabbage to communicate with Csound, and vice versa. The name that appears beside each native slider in the plugin host will be the assigned channel name for that widget.

Note: since Cabbage version 2, ALL identifier are case sensitive and preseted as camelCase, i.e, trackerColour(), keyWidth()..

The syntax for each widget follows a pretty simple pattern. The first thing to declare is the widget type which is done by placing a widget name at the start of a line of code in the Cabbage section of the source file.

<Cabbage>
(...)
rslider
(...)
</Cabbage>

Each Cabbage widget has a corresponding set of identifiers that can be set to control its appearance and behaviour. These identifiers are placed on the same line of code as the widget name. For example, the following code creates an rslider, with a position 10 pixels from the left and 10 pixels from the top. In order words, it's XY coordinates are 10,10. Its size is 100px's by 100px's. There is also some code to set the range of the slider.

<Cabbage>
(...)
rslider bounds(10, 10, 100, 100), range(0, 1, .5)
(...)
</Cabbage>

Not all widgets support the same identifiers. For example, a groupbox will never need to have a channel assigned to it because it is a static control. Likewise, buttons don't need to use the range() identifier because they are only ever on or off, 0 or 1. Parameters presented in the following reference manual within quotation marks represent string values, while those without represent floating point decimals or integer values. Please use the menu on the left to navigate through the various types of widget's supported be Cabbage.

bounds() must be set for every widget. All other identifiers will be given default values if none are set. Only ; type comments can be used in the Cabbage section of code, /`/ will not work.