Discern whether you are in a text field in Ableton Live?

This is a special command, so the keyboard shortcut you assign to this will always work, even when bypassed (otherwise you wouldn't be able to un-bypass) :)

Thanks @chrscheuer ! I'm using this as a workaround for the moment. I have no idea of what would be required to allow Soundflow to 'know' it's in a text field in Live but if it's possible to do then I think it would be a really useful feature. Maybe one for the ideas forum?

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Hi Graham,

It looks like the functions in Live can be controlled in detail using the Live API. I haven't read up on it enough to see if it's maintained by Ableton or Cycling 74 (Max for Live), but it seems like there are all sorts of cool things that can be done; scripting necessary. It's also not clear if this runs on normal Ableton Live or if the full version with Max for Live is required. Maybe at some point in future the Soundflow team might incorporate more native Live functions. Given how popular Live is I would imagine that it should be on their radar; would certainly open up a new potential userbase.

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/vignettes/jsliveapi

Sample code below (taken from this link) - untested.

var api = new LiveAPI(sample_callback, "live_set tracks 0")
if (!api) {
  post("no api object\n")
  return
}
post("api.mode", api.mode ? "follows path" : "follows object", "\n")
post("api.id is", api.id, "\n")
post("api.path is", api.path, "\n")
post("api.children are", api.children, "\n")
post('api.getcount("devices")', api.getcount("devices"), "\n")

api.property = "mute"
post("api.property is", api.property, "\n")
post("type of", api.property, "is", api.proptype, "\n")

function sample_callback(args) {
  post("callback called with arguments:", args, "\n")
}