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Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Stream Deck and other controllers to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
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Variable for position of 'this button' #2803

Closed Coupe70 closed 6 months ago

Coupe70 commented 6 months ago

Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?

Is there an existing issue for this?

Describe the feature

A variable 'this button' that contains the position of the button the variable is used in (page/row/column). Or, if this might be not easy to define, a variable 'pressed button' that contains the position of the pressed button. There are pulldown menus where you can select "This Button" as target, so it seems the information is available, just not exposed as variable for further use.

Usecases

My use case would be to access the text of a button for further use which is possible as e.g. internal:b_text_2_3_1, but only with an absolute address. So this button can't easily be duplicated or moved without breaking the functionality. That's why I would like to see something like internal:b_text_$(this_button) or internal:b_text_$(pressed_button) I'm pretty sure there are other use cases where it's handy to know WHERE a pressed button is. Not sure about a good format for this variable as in some places page/row/column is needed, in my use case it would be page_row_column. So maybe it would be better and more versatile to split it into $this_page, $this_row and $this_column?

MarekPro1 commented 6 months ago

Same, I want to use variable $(this:page) and row and column in other use cases so it must be a number not "/NA" like it's writing me nowa, I want to send some generic osc that contains the variable of this button and shows as a number.

Julusian commented 6 months ago

In 3.3, the $(this:.... variables are available in a few more places, such as in button text. The places this is available will continue to grow over time, and will be indicated by this icon: Screenshot from 2024-03-16 11-23-02

I don't think this needs to be kept open, I don't think it is asking for anything more than is supported today

MarekPro1 commented 6 months ago

So it will be supported in generic osc?

On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 at 12:27, Julian Waller @.***> wrote:

In 3.3, the $(this:.... variables are available in a few more places, such as in button text. The places this is available will continue to grow over time, and will be indicated by this icon: Screenshot.from.2024-03-16.11-23-02.png (view on web) https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/assets/1327476/8dd8547d-e586-4716-b803-2cba7ed6906e

I don't think this needs to be kept open, I don't think it is asking for anything more than is supported today

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