Activating or Deactivating all plugins on a single track.

Great! Glad to hear it, @Dean

Hi, @Dean,

Sorry for the delay in responding to this!

I made changes to the script above to accommodate this. Copy the code from here again and give it a go:

It seems that the insertSelectorButtons object wants all of the inserts to be shown to read their state, so I am just showing/hiding those temporarily if they are hidden.

This version will also scroll the selected track into view first to ensure it runs properly. If you wanted to have it be a named track, you could also do that, just let me know.

Hi, @Dean,

I think the error you are seeing results from the "timeout" in lines 77 and 87 not being long enough. I made the timeout 5000ms (instead of 1000) on the updated version above:
Activating or Deactivating all plugins on a single track. #post-2

Also – I was wrong, you can do what you are asking! This version of the script should activate/deactivate only for the visible inserts on the track:

/**
 * Activate/Deactivate All Visible Inserts on Selected Track
 */

if (!sf.ui.proTools.isRunning) throw `Pro Tools is not running`;

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();
sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.invalidate();

/**
 * Activate or Deactivate Inserts
 * @param {'Activate'|'Deactivate'} activateOrDeactivate
 */
function activateOrdeactivateActiveInserts(activateOrDeactivate) {
    const insertsAEWasChecked = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts A-E').isMenuChecked;
    const insertsFJWasChecked = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts F-J').isMenuChecked;

    let selectedTrack = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.invalidate();

    let insertSelectorButtons;
    let insertButtons;

    if (insertsAEWasChecked && !insertsFJWasChecked) {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons.slice(0, 5);
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons.slice(0, 5);
    } else if (!insertsAEWasChecked && insertsFJWasChecked) {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons.slice(5,10); 
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons.slice(5,10);
    } else if (!insertsAEWasChecked && !insertsFJWasChecked){
        log('No Inserts are Visible Currently. Show Inserts A-E or Inserts F-J and run again.');
        throw 0; 
    } else {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons;
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons;
    }

    selectedTrack.trackScrollToView();

    let inserts, menuPath;

    if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Deactivate') {
        // Array of Active Inserts - Active Inserts value is just "" or "open" (if plugin window is open)
        // The title.value of an active insert is something like "Insert selector A"
        // So we are mapping the active inserts to their Insert Selector names and then just slicing the last letter or "A"
        inserts = insertSelectorButtons.filter(x => x.value.value == "" || x.value.value == "open").map(x => x.title.value).map(x => x.slice(-1));
        menuPath = ['Make Inactive'];
    } else if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Activate') {
        // Array of Inactive Inserts - Inactive Inserts are "inactive", "inactive and open", or "unassigned"
        inserts = insertSelectorButtons.filter(x => x.value.value == "inactive" || x.value.value == "inactive and open").map(x => x.title.value).map(x => x.slice(-1));
        menuPath = ['Make Active'];
    }

    // Filter Insert Buttons by Active Inserts
    insertButtons = insertButtons.filter(insert => inserts.includes(insert.title.value.slice(-1)));

    // Deactivate each Active Insert 
    insertButtons.forEach((insert) => {

        // Map to the current selector button based on A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J
        let currentSelectorButton = insertSelectorButtons.find(insertSelectorButton => insertSelectorButton.title.value.slice(-1) == insert.title.value.slice(-1));

        // Make Active or Inactive
        insert.invalidate().popupMenuSelect({
            isRightClick: true,
            menuPath: menuPath,
        });

        // Wait for the plug-in to deactivate
        if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Deactivate') {
            sf.waitFor({
                callback: () => {
                    currentSelectorButton.invalidate();
                    return currentSelectorButton.value.value == "inactive" || currentSelectorButton.value.value == "inactive and open";
                },
                timeout: 30000
            }, `Failed waiting`);
        }
        // Wait for the plug-in to activate
        else if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Activate') {
            sf.waitFor({
                callback: () => {
                    currentSelectorButton.invalidate();
                    return currentSelectorButton.value.value == "" || currentSelectorButton.value.value == "open";
                },
                timeout: 30000
            }, `Failed waiting`);
        }
    });
}

activateOrdeactivateActiveInserts("Deactivate");

Sorry about that @Dean!

Updated now.

I was accounting for the scenarios where one set of inserts was shown or the other, but this one will handle all cases better...

Hi, @Dean,

Great!

Yes, that line is a "timeout" to ensure the plug-in activates or deactivates. If the plugin had taken longer than 5 seconds to come online, it would have timed out before. The best way to mitigate this would be to raise the timeout value in lines 75 and 85 to a larger number.

I've raised it to 30000 or 30 seconds in the scripts above, so give that a shot. It will complete once it recognizes the plugin is active or inactive, so it's okay to have large values like this in the timeout.

@Dean, very strange. I'm not sure why it would work here. Does it only fail on the track with the unfairchild on it?

You can try removing those checks. Since that version of the script doesn't show/hide the inserts, it may not be necessary:

/**
 * Activate/Deactivate All Visible Inserts on Selected Track
 */

if (!sf.ui.proTools.isRunning) throw `Pro Tools is not running`;

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();
sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.invalidate();

/**
 * Activate or Deactivate Inserts
 * @param {'Activate'|'Deactivate'} activateOrDeactivate
 */
function activateOrdeactivateActiveInserts(activateOrDeactivate) {
    const insertsAEWasChecked = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts A-E').isMenuChecked;
    const insertsFJWasChecked = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts F-J').isMenuChecked;

    let selectedTrack = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.invalidate();

    let insertSelectorButtons;
    let insertButtons;

    if (insertsAEWasChecked && !insertsFJWasChecked) {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons.slice(0, 5);
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons.slice(0, 5);
    } else if (!insertsAEWasChecked && insertsFJWasChecked) {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons.slice(5,10); 
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons.slice(5,10);
    } else if (!insertsAEWasChecked && !insertsFJWasChecked){
        log('No Inserts are Visible Currently. Show Inserts A-E or Inserts F-J and run again.');
        throw 0; 
    } else {
        insertSelectorButtons = selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons;
        insertButtons = selectedTrack.insertButtons;
    }

    selectedTrack.trackScrollToView();

    let inserts, menuPath;

    if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Deactivate') {
        // Array of Active Inserts - Active Inserts value is just "" or "open" (if plugin window is open)
        // The title.value of an active insert is something like "Insert selector A"
        // So we are mapping the active inserts to their Insert Selector names and then just slicing the last letter or "A"
        inserts = insertSelectorButtons.filter(x => x.value.value == "" || x.value.value == "open").map(x => x.title.value).map(x => x.slice(-1));
        menuPath = ['Make Inactive'];
    } else if (activateOrDeactivate == 'Activate') {
        // Array of Inactive Inserts - Inactive Inserts are "inactive", "inactive and open", or "unassigned"
        inserts = insertSelectorButtons.filter(x => x.value.value == "inactive" || x.value.value == "inactive and open").map(x => x.title.value).map(x => x.slice(-1));
        menuPath = ['Make Active'];
    }

    // Filter Insert Buttons by Active Inserts
    insertButtons = insertButtons.filter(insert => inserts.includes(insert.title.value.slice(-1)));

    // Deactivate each Active Insert 
    insertButtons.forEach((insert) => {

        // Make Active or Inactive
        insert.invalidate().popupMenuSelect({
            isRightClick: true,
            menuPath: menuPath,
        });
    });
}

activateOrdeactivateActiveInserts("Activate");

If that doesn't work, can you take a screen recording and share a Google Drive or Dropbox link?

Awesome! I removed line 68 to 87 from this version:

Those are checks to make sure that the plug-in is activated or deactivated before moving on, but that was only really necessary for the longer script that opens up the hidden inserts. Something with the menus changing needed some extra checks for it to work well on my computer when I was testing it last night.

But for the version that is just doing visible inserts, we may not need to check that the plugin was activated or deactivated.