EventWatchClr

EventWatcher with colors for sources

 (19 Votes)
3.1 (Updated 19 years ago)
42.0kB
February 27, 2006
Reaktor 5 or lower
Macro FX

DESCRIPTION

A slight modification to CList's incredibly great work.

Allows setting colors for individual sources so it's easier to locate them in the event list. There's an extra column added to the right of the values which can display a different color for each source. Info on the UI is in the Info field for the macro (added to Chris's original commentary). The interface to the macro is identical. Just a modified UI.

Again, I want to emphasize that this macro is 90% CList's work (or more). I'm really new to Reaktor building so I'm not sure of protocol here. I really don't want to step on anyone's toes. I left "V4" in the title, because that seemed right.

I'm sure Chris can take this over and probably improve on the design I'd be happy for him to do that. It certainly seems like you don't want ten people trying to modify this particular macro simultaneously. Perhaps I should have contacted Chris first. If so, I apologize.

Anyway, I think it's a useful addition that people might be happy to have so I'm putting it up.

Update: Sped things up significantly. Still, there's a slight performance hit for using colors so I added a button to bypass colors. When this button is turned off, the performance is identical to the original EventWatcher 4.0. If you like, you can run with colors turned off and then turn them on again when you're reviewing the output so you get the best of both worlds.

Update: Okay, I added the ability to turn on/off sources from the dialog. 8 LEDs at the upper left can be clicked on and off to enable/disable the corresponding source.

Update: Fixed some spurious event reporting on init. Also spaced out buttons at the top of the dialog.

COMMENTS  (4)

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Darrell Plank
19 years ago
Okay - found twinkly. Nice work. The differences I perceive: You can set one source a different color and leave everything else black in this macro. This makes it easier to scan when you're searching primarily for events of one type. The panel for this macro is larger and so takes up more real estate. Not sure which I prefer. Twinkly has buttons to turn off monitoring on individual events. I probably will do this. When I hook up a sine oscillator to both watchers on my machine, Twinkly takes up about 2.3% processor time, this macro takes up about 1.9% with the colors on and 1.1% with the colors turned off. Rearrangement of columns between the two. I hadn't seen twinkly before I started on this one but it's a nice choice also.
Darrell Plank
19 years ago
No prob, Soarer. I'm not familiar with clist's "Twinkly Event Watcher". I looked at all his submissions and didn't see anything that looked like it might correspond. Did I reinvent a wheel that I was unaware of?
Soarer
19 years ago
Gosh, I'm being really picky here! Sorry for that. Your feature is fine!
Soarer
19 years ago
Handy feature if you're not satisfied with the default colors of clist's Twinkly Event Watcher. I still prefer the TEW gui with the bypassing of the inputs and "In" instead of "Source" -and the color column next to the "In" column.
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