Question: what's the cleanest way to display all Group Globals in a template?

Hi @Eric_Huergo,

This looks very complicated (needing 60+ boolean values stored in the global state), however that is possible. But let's try to look at it from a more simple perspective.

What is it you are actually trying to achieve? (If you can explain this, I'm sure there is a solution that may not be as elaborate.)

Also, from your post I'm not sure I understand what you mean by Group Globals, can you clarify this?

Rock on!

Hey @Kitch thanks for the response! Essentially, I'm trying to be able to define all of the tickboxes in the following dialog box from a template inside a package:

I want to do this because I want to very quickly be able to fill out all of these values according to whatever settings a template states. This would make it so that I only have to define the values once per template and simply run the script whenever I want a particular set of values applied.

I've done this already with a ton of booleans but to me that feels messy when I look at it in the template as there's one line per tickbox. What I'm trying to do is essentially, in an ideal scenario just have the following lines:

Main Volume: y/n
Main Mute: y/n
Main Pan: y/n
Main LFE: y/n
Insert Controls: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Insert Bypass: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Send Level: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Send Mute: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Send Pan: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Send LFE: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j
Record Enable: y/n
Input Monitoring: y/n
Object Controls: y/n
Solos: y/n
Automation Mode: y/n

My apologies if this is a tricky one but I appreciate you a lot for even trying to help! :)

EDIT - Also, I'd like to add that if there is a way but it would be fairly complex to realize then even just pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated! I'm not afraid of investing time into developing more proficient coding skills! Even though I'm not a complete newbie to coding/programming I'm well aware that there is still an incredible amount I have yet to learn and I think a big part of that is simply just becoming aware of what I don't know! So really, anything helps! Appreciate y'all! :)

2nd EDIT - It's possible to save groups of desired configurations under the 6 "Settings" buttons but alas, that's not an ideal solution since it grants the user a fixed amount of 6 configurations, not to mention the user can't quickly see or name these configurations (which forces the user to remember that button 1 is the one used for x, button 2 is the one for y and so on)!

@Kitch, how in the actual f*** did you come up with this so fast? Absolute madlad!!!

Okay I definitely have some testing to do but holy sh**, mad respect and thank you so much yet again! I hope that dinner is incredibly tasty as you damn well deserve it!

WOW!

Alright, so I modified the code a little bit (mainly just changed the window title "Edit: TEST SESSION NOTES" and renamed Lfes/Lfe to LFEs/LFE) like so:

const { insertControls, insertBypasses, sendLevels, sendMutes, sendPans, sendLFEs } = event.props;


const groupWindowLookup = {
    "a": { insertControl: 1, insertBypass: 0, sendLevel: 24, sendMute: 25, sendPan: 26, sendLFE: 27, },
    "b": { insertControl: 3, insertBypass: 2, sendLevel: 28, sendMute: 29, sendPan: 30, sendLFE: 31, },
    "c": { insertControl: 5, insertBypass: 4, sendLevel: 32, sendMute: 33, sendPan: 34, sendLFE: 35, },
    "d": { insertControl: 7, insertBypass: 6, sendLevel: 36, sendMute: 37, sendPan: 38, sendLFE: 39, },
    "e": { insertControl: 9, insertBypass: 8, sendLevel: 40, sendMute: 41, sendPan: 42, sendLFE: 43, },
    "f": { insertControl: 11, insertBypass: 10, sendLevel: 44, sendMute: 45, sendPan: 46, sendLFE: 47, },
    "g": { insertControl: 13, insertBypass: 12, sendLevel: 48, sendMute: 49, sendPan: 50, sendLFE: 51, },
    "h": { insertControl: 15, insertBypass: 14, sendLevel: 52, sendMute: 53, sendPan: 54, sendLFE: 55, },
    "i": { insertControl: 17, insertBypass: 16, sendLevel: 56, sendMute: 57, sendPan: 58, sendLFE: 59, },
    "j": { insertControl: 19, insertBypass: 18, sendLevel: 60, sendMute: 61, sendPan: 62, sendLFE: 63, },
};


function openModifyGroupGlobals() {
    sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

    sf.ui.proTools.groupsEnsureGroupListIsVisible();

    sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.buttons.whoseTitle.is("Group List pop-up").first.popupMenuSelect({
        menuPath: ["Modify Groups"],
    });

    sf.ui.proTools.windows.whoseTitle.is("Modify Groups").first.elementWaitFor();

    sf.ui.proTools.windows.whoseTitle.is("Modify Groups").first.radioButtons.whoseTitle.is("Globals 3 of 3").first.elementClick();
}


/**
 * @param {AxElement} window
 * @param {Number} index
 */
function setCheckbox(window, index, targetValue) {
    switch (true) {
        case targetValue === "Enable" && !window.checkBoxes[index].isCheckBoxChecked:
            window.checkBoxes.whoseTitle.is("CheckBox").allItems[index].mouseClickElement();
            break
        case targetValue === "Disable" && window.checkBoxes[index].isCheckBoxChecked:
            window.checkBoxes.whoseTitle.is("CheckBox").allItems[index].mouseClickElement();
            break
    }
}

function setGroupGlobals() {
    const modifyGroupsWin = sf.ui.proTools.windows.whoseTitle.is("Modify Groups").first;

    modifyGroupsWin.invalidate();

    let getDisabledCheckbox = (array) => "abcdefghij".split('').filter(cb => !array.includes(cb));

    //Set Insert Control Checkboxes
    insertControls.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].insertControl, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(insertControls).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].insertControl, "Disable"));

    //Set insert Bypass Checkboxes
    insertBypasses.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].insertBypass, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(insertBypasses).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].insertBypass, "Disable"));

    //Set Send Level Checkboxes
    sendLevels.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendLevel, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(sendLevels).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendLevel, "Disable"));

    //Set Send Mute Checkboxes
    sendMutes.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendMute, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(sendMutes).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendMute, "Disable"));

    //Set Send Pan Checkboxes
    sendPans.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendPan, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(sendPans).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendPan, "Disable"));

    //Set Send LFE Checkboxes
    sendLFEs.forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendLFE, "Enable"));
    getDisabledCheckbox(sendLFEs).forEach(insert => setCheckbox(modifyGroupsWin, groupWindowLookup[insert].sendLFE, "Disable"));
}

setGroupGlobals();

But oddly enough, whenever I try and run the script I get the error message "MouseClickAction requires valid UIElement" on Line 40 which is this one:

            window.checkBoxes.whoseTitle.is("CheckBox").allItems[index].mouseClickElement();

I've been trying quite a few things but none of them seem to work, no rush but do you know what might be causing this error? :s