Getting a tracks type

Renoise Tool Development
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When I enter this in the interpreter lua obediently tells me the tracks type and returns a number:

oprint(renoise.song().tracks[1].type)

When doing the same from my tool lua throws an error:

*** main.lua:54: unknown property or function 'type' for an object of type 'PatternTrack'  
*** stack traceback:  
*** [C]: in function '_error'  
*** [string "do..."]:47: in function   
main.lua:54: in function <41><br>```

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What's going on here?</41>
2

[quote=“tris”]
When I enter this in the interpreter lua obediently tells me the tracks type and returns a number:

oprint(renoise.song().tracks[1].type)

When doing the same from my tool lua throws an error:

*** main.lua:54: unknown property or function 'type' for an object of type 'PatternTrack'  
*** stack traceback:  
*** [C]: in function '_error'  
*** [string "do..."]:47: in function   
main.lua:54: in function <41><br>```

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What's going on here?<br>[/quote]<br>
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Works fine for me, this code prints the types of all your tracks:<br>
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```<br><br>
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for n = 1, #renoise.song().tracks do <br>
  print (renoise.song().tracks[n].type)<br>
end<br>
<br>```

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Maybe it's something else in your code?</41>
3

yep. it is just realised i’m looking at a PatternTrack and not a track.

Cheers!