Anyway to add images into Easy GUI?

[LaNonchalance]

i'm smiling in front of this right now that's awesome ! can't wait to learn all that !

[ystmrk]

I tried. It's very fun!
Arc Rotation knob image layer is very useful with transparent PNGs.

I am happy if the GUI parts community is enhanced. Like NI's Reaktor.

--- Digression
It may be a bit useful if an XML template is generated when first saving the module.
... or built-in XML editor .... XML snippet editor....
It would be useful to be able to reload the image without restarting MSF.

[Underoath77]

This would be a dream come true if possible! Would love it for my guitar amp builder in MXXX

Maybe not. So here's another one with inappropriate images:



The knob is mapped via an MP targetting the Device parameter in TurboComp and the graphic to the right is a "Static knob" with a vertically stacked set of compressor images.

[DarkStar]

Umm, it is possible.

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<!-- MTurboComp Device selection knob -->

<control target="30" pos="470,260" image="edgedB94x64_dark"/>
<control target="30" pos="570,260" image="CompPics" height="60" static="1" />
<control type="units" target="30" pos="520,310" size="200,50" color="002222FF"
	fontname="roboto" fontheight="14" fontwidth="0" fontitalic="1" fontbold="0"
	fontlayout="center" />
	

[MeldaProduction]

Damn! I didn't release single prototype for this and you are all exploiting it already

[Underoath77]

@HorusAnd found it...

Just some teasers ...
Here are a few examples that I quickly put together, just to show the possibilities (not my graphcs skill ). My apologies to Chandler for butchering his Electirc Piano device.

(a) Knobs and switches

-- with the names and units where you want and in the colours and fonts that you want,
-- you will see when I adjust the Sharpness knob the graphic beneath it changes too. That is just a horizontal "slider" that I mapped to the same Multiparameter and uses a single image frame, moving it left/right.
-- and when I adjust the Timbre knob the graphic to the right of it also change (that is also mapped to the Timbre MP. That one is a "knob / slider", using a grey backround image and the orange slope image.
-- you will also see the vertical bar changing; that is also mapped to Timbre. That is a "knob as meter" using a single vertical image (of 32 LEDs)
-- finally there is the switch selecting the mode. That is a "switch" type, with 7 states. It uses a vertically-stacked image of 7 frames. as well as displaying the mode value below the graphic, I also added the names to the image frames

(b) Meters

-- now you can align them, colour and size them, add backgrounds as desired
-- I have not added any labels yet.
-- oh, and there's a background image there too

(c) Vertical sliders

-- Position, size, colour, labels, backgrounds as you want
-- Faux "3D perspective" sliders too.

[Underoath77]

Any chance you can explain how you accomplish this Horus and I have a few ideas...

Just some teasers ...
Here are a few examples that I quickly put together, just to show the possibilities (not my graphcs skill ). My apologies to Chandler for butchering his Electirc Piano device.

(a) Knobs and switches

-- with the names and units where you want and in the colours and fonts that you want,
-- you will see when I adjust the Sharpness knob the graphic beneath it changes too. That is just a horizontal "slider" that I mapped to the same Multiparameter and uses a single image frame, moving it left/right.
-- and when I adjust the Timbre knob the graphic to the right of it also change (that is also mapped to the Timbre MP. That one is a "knob / slider", using a grey backround image and the orange slope image.
-- you will also see the vertical bar changing; that is also mapped to Timbre. That is a "knob as meter" using a single vertical image (of 32 LEDs)
-- finally there is the switch selecting the mode. That is a "switch" type, with 7 states. It uses a vertically-stacked image of 7 frames. as well as displaying the mode value below the graphic, I also added the names to the image frames

(b) Meters

-- now you can align them, colour and size them, add backgrounds as desired
-- I have not added any labels yet.
-- oh, and there's a background image there too

(c) Vertical sliders

-- Position, size, colour, labels, backgrounds as you want
-- Faux "3D perspective" sliders too.

[DarkStar]

Have a look here: https://www.meldaproduction.com/about/d ... mDeviceGUI

You can unZip the attached and put the 2 files and the folder in *on Window)...AppData\Roaming\MeldaProduction\MSoundFactoryInstruments\DarkStar.
-- the minstrument file stops me from corrupting Chandler's original
-- the .xml file defines the elements and the images used
-- the folder contains the images.

It was only a prototype and does not work perfectly