Font sizes (and example use) and some other requests!

[richardwilliamson]

Sorry - me again.

I've started out building a control surface for an arduino project I've been working on - OSC cue lights, see the project at github and a video at video

It's great (and perfect timing) - a couple of things I have realised

• The option to use a single command across a whole row would save a lot of typing!
• There is no way to size fonts, it would be good if you could set a minimum font size so that the font gracefully shrinks to fit whatever is there
• It would be nice if there was a way to set the colour of a button from an OSC input. I note there is a 'feedback' field but I'm not quite clear what this does - the way my system works is that you send a command (such as /go) and the unit responds with the state of the lamp (/go 1 or /go 0) meaning that if the unit doesn't work the lamps don't update. If this was possible it would remove for the separate activity widgets
• The response of OSCWidgets seems to be significantly slower than touchOSC on an iPad - does the logging slow down responses? I think it's slower when the main window is open (I assume the logging is slowing things down?)

I have also realised I can't see a way to re-open the main properties window when you have closed it (without closing and re-opening the file) - could probably do with a view menu item to re-open it. Ideally then it wouldn't open by default when opening the file.

[MizPlusPlus]

Hey Richard,

The responsiveness issue was definitely related to the logging. In v0.6 I moved writing log messages to disk to a background thread, and also wrote a shiny new optimized logging display widget. Should feel faster now.

I agree, it takes to much typing to build a grid. I will have to think about a good fix for that. (You can always hand-edit the file in your text editor of choice until then)

Also agree about font sizing. I will add a new field for that.

"OSC Label" = set text label from an incoming OSC message
"OSC Feedback" = set the state of an OSCWidget widget from an incoming OSC message (ex: Toggle state of an OSCWidget Button, the level of an OSCWidgets Fader, the position of an OSCWidgets XY, etc...)
"OSC Trigger" = trigger an OSC widget from an incoming OSC message (ex: Press/Release an OSC Widget Button, start/stop an OSCWidgets Metronome, etc...)
I like the idea of setting color remotely, good idea.

To re-open the main window, you can right+click on any OSCWidget and select "Toggle Main Window" - and you can also choose that option from the OSCWidgets icon in the system tray.