New Tool (3.0, 3.1): Track Comments

[fladd]

@00.1

So far so good. I’ve got a lot of notes, but most of it is separated track by track to avoid scrolling.

There is one little thing, although maybe its not a bug.

If I select all and cut a note from one track, then paste it on another track, then click “X” to exit, not all of it gets pasted, a couple of lines from the end are missing.

But if I hit Enter after I have pasted, all is well.

That is weird! Sounds to me like if the notifier is not called correctly after pasting and exiting the window or something. Maybe a bug in the scripting API?

[fladd]

I just updated this tool to work with Renoise 2.7. Have a look at the original post.

Do you guys think this is ready for the tools page?

[rhowaldt]

@fladd

I just updated this tool to work with Renoise 2.7. Have a look at the original post.

Do you guys think this is ready for the tools page?

did you manage to iron out the last-mentioned bug? (your previous post)
in my own experience i’ve had no trouble with it, but have not used it extensively either. i suppose it’s your call whether to put it on the tools page or not.

[fladd]

@rhowaldt

did you manage to iron out the last-mentioned bug? (your previous post)
in my own experience i’ve had no trouble with it, but have not used it extensively either. i suppose it’s your call whether to put it on the tools page or not.

I am afraid that this is nothing I can fix, but has to be fixed in the API. Maybe someone from the dev team can look into this?

[fladd]

Now available at the tools page and compatible with Renoise 2.8!

http://www.renoise.com/tools/track-comments

[uporo]

‘C:\Users\x\AppData\Roaming\Renoise\V2.8.1\Scripts\Tools\de.fladd.TrackComments.xrnx’ failed to execute in one of its menu entry functions. Please contact the author for assistance… main.lua:259: attempt to index upvalue ‘current_song’ (a nil value) stack traceback: main.lua:259: in function main.lua:246

edit: I am using Win7 64bit

[fladd]

@Uporo

'C:\Users\x\AppData\Roaming\Renoise\V2.8.1\Scripts\Tools\de.fladd.TrackComments.xrnx' failed to execute in one of its menu entry functions. Please contact the author for assistance… main.lua:259: attempt to index upvalue ‘current_song’ (a nil value) stack traceback: main.lua:259: in function main.lua:246

edit: I am using Win7 64bit

Mmh…strange…current_song is nil…
And you get this message when you do what exactly? Open a song? Open Renoise? Open the track comment window?

[uporo]

Hmm, it started working now, strange. i just opened renoise and tried it without loading a song. Tried second time and it worked.

[vvoois (vV)]

The tool perhaps is initiated while there is no song-data there yet? Without looking at the code i can understand current_song will be nil if an expression “if not renoise.song() == nil then current_song=renoise.song()” is executed during the startup of Renoise, because then renoise.song() will always be nil (tools start faster than a new empty song has been initiated).

[fladd]

Updated for 3.0!

[fladd]

Updated for Renoise 3.1

[James_Britt (James Britt / Neurogami)]

Just tried this out. Tempted now to hack on it so I can save comments per pattern in a track.

[James_Britt (James Britt / Neurogami)]

I started hacking on fladd’s code (very nice!) and have been looking into a Renoise fx column hack as a way to anchor comments to patterns.

I’ve posted a new topic to discuss possible flaws with my idea.

https://forum.renoise.com/t/using-custom-fx-numbers-values-for-storing-tool-data-thoughts/47559