add 'text' parameter + adjust params window UI

dndrks commented 1 year ago

summary

this PR includes:

a text parameter type, which could be useful for (eg.) in-menu OSC path declarations or writing text in the params window which cannot be edited
separate parameter UI for the text param type
some adjustments of the parameters window text layouts:
- drawing a 180 pixel line under every separator (vs default 127)
- truncating parameter names over 100 pixels wide
- truncating text parameters over 90 pixels wide
- left-justifying parameter values
a quick fix for .pmap file restores on parameters which don't exist

`text` param type details

invoke with params:add_text(id, name, txt, locked, check)

id: string; no spaces
name: string; display name, spaces fine
txt: string; default text, spaces fine
locked: boolean; determines whether the user can edit the text in the params UI
check: function; optional function displays a message of warning or success based on text

in params UI, hit ENTER to enter the text editor

note: i'm not sure how to allow modified entries like ! without manually mapping each input. @ryleelyman , is there something you'd recommend? or should we just make affordances for _ and call it a day?

test script

function checker(txt)
  if string.len(txt) > 30 then
    return "too long"
  else
    return ("remaining: " .. 30 - string.len(txt))
  end
end

function init()
  params:add_separator("my_separator", "script params")
  params:add_number("test_num", "percentage", 1, 100, 30, "%")
  params:add_text("truncate", "here is a title that goes on and on", "some text", false, checker)
  params:add_text("no_edit", "you can't edit this", "sorryyyyyy", true)
  params:add_separator("test_sep2", "here's a very very very much much longer name")
end

screenshots

just to show the stuff!

new dimensions:

text param UI (with optional check argument active):

lmk how it all looks, @ryleelyman ! i think i've got one or two more PR's before i'm done (lololol) but just wanna chunk changes <3

dndrks commented 1 year ago

ooo wait wait, one more thing to fix, sryryryry

dndrks commented 1 year ago

ok, we back :)

robbielyman commented 1 year ago

gosh, this is so great. thank you!! gonna wait for further PRs before moving on to 0.19.0

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