Open plugin by name triggered by track selection

@samuel_henriques food for though as I'm quietly following along on this. Well, actually 2 thoughts.

ONE - Triggering the script should be a toggle - First button press should enable the runforever and then 2nd button press toggle it back off. I know someone (maybe you) recently built this for the OUTPUT window version of this script and I've been using it a lot more because of it.

TWO - What if we took the chance of 'user error' out of this script entirely. So the first time the script is run it runs the user through a prompt to the tune of let pluginName = sf.ui.prompt {search and prompt from all plugins here} then it either stores that as globalstate or Json? This way people can't mispell or anything else.

@Rafael_Villafane question for you, is your EQ plugin always in the same insert slot on every track wether it's CS2 or 4KB? If so it might make more sense in your case for the script to open whatever plugin is on a specific insert.

anyways just food for thought as I've been getting the updates on this post and am always curious to keep following.

Hi @Rafael_Villafane,

Quick question. Since these are two individual plugins. do they both exist on a single track? Or is there only one SSL plugin on each track?

The script only opens the first of the SSL plugins that it finds on the track.

Let me know.

There's this one here
Insert X follows track selection #post-3

Here it is for INSERT 1 and Output window (sorry I think it needs that part to be able to know and follow the way it's built) If you press the button once the Run forever starts running. You can turn it off by pressing it again.

TRACK MUST BE AT LEAST SMALL SIZE for it to work. Micro breaks it.

var lastFocusedTrackName;

globalState.runAutoFollowOutputWin = !globalState.runAutoFollowOutputWin

function main() {
    try {

        var newName = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackNames[0];
        if (newName === lastFocusedTrackName || newName === undefined) return;

        lastFocusedTrackName = newName;

        if (sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.outputWindowButton.value.invalidate().value !== 'open')
            sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.trackOutputToggleShow({ onError: 'Continue' });
            sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.trackInsertToggleShow({
            insertNumber: 1,
            targetValue: "Enable",
            onError: "Continue",
            });

    } catch (err) {
    }
}

function runForever(name, action, interval, timeout) {
    var now = (new Date).valueOf();
    if (now - globalState[name] < timeout) throw 0; //Exit if we were invoked again inside the timeout

    globalState[name] = now;
    sf.engine.runInBackground(function () {
        try {
            while (true && globalState.runAutoFollowOutputWin) {
                sf.engine.checkForCancellation();
                globalState[name] = (new Date).valueOf();

                action();

                sf.wait({ intervalMs: interval, executionMode: 'Background' });
            }
        } finally {
            globalState[name] = null;
        }
    });
}

runForever("isFollowFocusedTrackRunning", main, 500, 5000);

Maybe someone more skilled than me can show how to do it without also showing output window, and bomb proof it for track heights?

Hello Rafael,
Sorry this is taking so long, it's rare but sometimes there are small details that are hard to figure out.
I'm still intrigued why it doesn't work for you, could you make a screen capture of the script working for one track but failing on the other, please?

In the mean time, here's a variation of the initial script:

const pluginNames = ['SSL Native Channel Strip 2', 'SSL 4K B'];


let lastFocusedTrackName;

function main() {
    try {
        let newName = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackNames[0];
        if (newName === lastFocusedTrackName || newName === undefined) return;

        lastFocusedTrackName = newName;

        const group1Visible = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts A-E').isMenuChecked;
        const group2Visible = sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('View', 'Edit Window Views', 'Inserts F-J').isMenuChecked;
        const insertButtons = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.invalidate().insertButtons.slice(group1Visible ? 0 : 5, group2Visible ? 10 : 5);

        const targetInsertButton = insertButtons.find((b, i) => {
            const getInsertButton = (pluginNameArr) => pluginNameArr.includes(b.value.invalidate().value);
            const isOpen = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.insertSelectorButtons[i].value.invalidate().value === "open"

            return b.exists && !isOpen && getInsertButton(pluginNames);
        });

        if (targetInsertButton) {
            targetInsertButton.elementClick();
        }
    } catch (err) { }
}

function runForever(name, action, interval, timeout) {
    let now = (new Date).valueOf();
    if (now - globalState[name] < timeout) throw 0; //Exit if we were invoked again inside the timeout

    globalState[name] = now;
    sf.engine.runInBackground(function () {
        try {
            while (true) {
                sf.engine.checkForCancellation();
                if (globalState[name] === null) return;
                globalState[name] = (new Date).valueOf();

                action();

                sf.wait({ intervalMs: interval, executionMode: 'Background' });
            }
        } finally {

            globalState[name] = null;
        }
    });
}



let nameThisRunForever = "OpenPluginNameFollowTrackSelection"

// Run Script
if (!globalState[nameThisRunForever]) {

    runForever(nameThisRunForever, main, 250, 5000);


} else { //Stop script
    log("stop: " + nameThisRunForever);
    globalState[nameThisRunForever] = null

}

And here a version that only opens insert number, change it to the one you want on line 1

let insertSlotNumber = 2

let lastFocusedTrackName;

function main() {
    try {
        let newName = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackNames[0];
        if (newName === lastFocusedTrackName || newName === undefined) return;

        lastFocusedTrackName = newName;

        sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.trackInsertToggleShow({
            insertNumber: insertSlotNumber,
            targetValue: "Enable",
        });
    } catch (err) { }
}

function runForever(name, action, interval, timeout) {
    let now = (new Date).valueOf();
    if (now - globalState[name] < timeout) throw 0; //Exit if we were invoked again inside the timeout

    globalState[name] = now;
    sf.engine.runInBackground(function () {
        try {
            while (true) {
                sf.engine.checkForCancellation();
                if (globalState[name] === null) return;
                globalState[name] = (new Date).valueOf();

                action();

                sf.wait({ intervalMs: interval, executionMode: 'Background' });
            }
        } finally {

            globalState[name] = null;
        }
    });
}



let nameThisRunForever = "OpenPluginInsertNFollowTrackSelection"

// Run Script
if (!globalState[nameThisRunForever]) {

    runForever(nameThisRunForever, main, 250, 5000);


} else { //Stop script
    log("stop: " + nameThisRunForever);
    globalState[nameThisRunForever] = null

}