How to check a popup menu and IF… then it

Hi Simon!

For toggling clip gain bypass of more than one selected clip you can use this;

function toggleClipGainBypass() {
    var menuItemBypass;
    var menuItemUnbypass;
    if ((menuItemBypass = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem("Clip", "Clip Gain", "Bypass")).exists)
        menuItemBypass.elementClick();
    else if ((menuItemUnbypass = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem("Clip", "Clip Gain", "Unbypass")).exists)
        menuItemUnbypass.elementClick();
}

sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
    action: toggleClipGainBypass
});

Rock on!

Hi @Kitch, I had a 'Doh' moment when I looked at your script. I'd never looked in the Menu bar before for clip gain, I'd only ever done it by right click.

So purely because I want to learn how to do this correctly,

IF I'd been trying to use the right click dropdown menu, would I integrate the same command this way? and does 'popupMenuItem' exist?

EditorWin.popupMenuSelect({
relativePosition: { x: mousePos.x - EditorWinFrame.x, y: mousePos.y - EditorWinFrame.y },
isRightClick: true,

function toggleClipGainBypass() {
var popupMenuItemBypass;
var popupMenuItemUnbypass;
if ((popupMenuItemBypass = sf.ui.proTools.popupMenuItem("Clip Gain", "Bypass")).exists)
popupMenuItemBypass.elementClick();
else if ((popupMenuItemUnbypass = sf.ui.proTools.popupMenuItem("Clip Gain", "Unbypass")).exists)
popupmenuItemUnbypass.elementClick();
}

sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
action: toggleClipGainBypass
});

Glad I'm in good company. Can't wait to see the Chord surface. We're designing a whole load of GUIs for these at the moment. I'll share as I get them ready for grownups

@Kitch
The script is great however:
One problem with the checking each clip in turn is that it toggles each state as you've written it so…

Since I wanted to have two buttons on the surface 'Bypass' and 'Unbypass', I initially tweaked to make two scripts. They addressed each clip, checked its status and then changed it if needed. It checks each one manually, which could take a long time if you had a set of sliced up drums. Here's Unbypass:

function toggleClipGainBypass() {
var menuItemBypass;
var menuItemUnbypass;
if ((menuItemUnbypass = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem("Clip", "Clip Gain", "Unbypass")).exists)
menuItemUnbypass.elementClick();
;
}

sf.ui.proTools.clipDoForEachSelectedClip({
action: toggleClipGainBypass
});

This was way too slow for a hundred clips.
So…
For the Bypass script, i tweaked it to ignore the next clip function, and instead first look for 'Unbypass' in the menu (which would be thrown by any clip that had Clip Gain Bypassed. If it was there, click that. This would set the state of all selected clips to 'Unbypassed' and the menu would now have 'Bypass' as the option.
Then Click 'Bypass' to make all the clips bypassed.

Likewise the 'unbypass' script would look for 'Bypass' first, if that was present, it would then click Bypass, followed by 'Unbypass'.
I tried tweaking the script to first look for 'Unbypass' - which is the menu status if any clip in a selected group is already bypassed etc…

PROBLEM:

For some reason, SF does not see the changed menu item.
sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

function toggleClipGainBypass() {
var menuItemBypass;
var menuItemUnbypass;

if ((menuItemUnbypass = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem("Clip", "Clip Gain", "Unbypass")).exists)
    menuItemUnbypass.elementClick()

}
;
sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({
menuPath: ["Clip", "Clip Gain", "Bypass"]
});

Throws a 'Could Not Find Menu Item' error with the bottom line.

Wassup?