Setting Keyboard Focus To Trackdsp-Effect Or Diskbrowser?

Renoise Tool Development
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Hi.

renoise().window.lock_keyboard_focus=true

Will set the keyboard focus to the center one (sample editor, pattern editor, order list, instrument keymap)

How would I go about setting the keyboard focus on a Track DSP effect I’ve just added with a script? :)
Or to the diskbrowser?
or to the pattern matrix/order list?

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Well, I did find one way of doing it, but couldn’t seem to get it going

  
renoise.song().selected_track:insert_device_at(device_name, 2)  
renoise.song().selected_device_index=2

Doesn’t choose the just_inserted_tool, but does choose whichever happens to be 2 before the plug is added :) another case where a “delay” would assist the functionality, right?

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Have you tried it this way?

  
local just_inserted_tool = renoise.song().selected_track:insert_device_at(device_name, 2)  
renoise.song().selected_device_index = just_inserted_tool

edit:
Maybe even:

  
renoise.song().selected_device_index = renoise.song().selected_track:insert_device_at(device_name, 2)

…
This is speculation, though.

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That code works just fine for me - creates a new device right after the track’s vol/pan device and then selects that device, no “delay” needed. The keyboard focus stays on the pattern editor, though, which I think is not what you want.

just_inserted_tool is a renoise.TrackDevice, renoise.song().selected_device_index is a number, so the assignment on line 2 throws an error. :( Additionally, the renoise.song().selected_device property is read-only, so I don’t think there’s a way to set the selected device with the actual renoise.TrackDevice object.

5

= true

Missed the obvious fact it returned a device object, not its index. But… Apropos: Are there supported ways of moving keyboard focus around in the API?

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I’d love for there to be. Being able to set keyboard cursor focus to Disk Browser would be amazing, especially since discovering that left+right control which sample is chosen in the sample_keyzone_mode, and pressing enter on a sample in disk browser loads the sample to selected keyzone slot.

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Weirdly enough, got it working in Mixer view:

renoise.tool():add_keybinding {  
name = "Global:Track Devices:Load George Yohng's W1",  
invoke = function() renoise.app().window.lower_frame_is_visible=true  
renoise.app().window.active_lower_frame=1  
renoise.song().selected_track:insert_device_at("Audio/Effects/AU/aufx:4Fwl:Yhng", 2)  
renoise.song().selected_track.devices[2].external_editor_visible=true  
renoise.song().selected_device_index = 2  
end}

However, the cursor focus will only show in trackdsp view (lower frame) if the cursor focus is already on trackdsp…
So it’s half-working… And we return back to “Cursor Focus for Upper Frame & Lower Frame” setting :)

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