Tool: Stop Or Edit

Renoise Tools
1

I have made my first (and very simple but useful) tool, and thought some experienced coder could just see that it’s OK before i release it. It works but maybe it’s too ugly?

  
-- My first simple script, making a keyboard shortcut working like Milkytrackers spacebar. It stops if playing, and toggles editmode if stopped.  
  
function stop_or_edit()  
 if renoise.song().transport.playing == true then   
 renoise.song().transport:stop()  
 elseif not renoise.song().transport.edit_mode then  
 renoise.song().transport.edit_mode = true  
 else  
 renoise.song().transport.edit_mode = false  
 end  
end  
  
renoise.tool():add_keybinding {  
name = "Pattern Editor:Play:Stop or Edit",  
invoke = function() stop_or_edit() end  
}
2

Looks good to me. You dont really need the == true in the first if statement, but maybe you already knew that.

3

Looks good, and don’t want to discourage you, but there is an option in Renoise to get the old FTII space key behavior:
http://tutorials.renoise.com/wiki/Preferences#Misc -> Space rec/stop mode

4

Thanks taktik, I will use this feature instead.

I am already working on a new and more serious tool. Even for non-coders it’s quite easy to just copy+paste from the API reference :)