Finding the track for a selection

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DuncanBrinsmead
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2004/11/04 18:34:29 (permalink)

Finding the track for a selection

When stepping through the list of selected events, it is possible to find the track number of the selected event?

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    SergeD
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/10 17:38:46 (permalink)
    Duncan,

    you are lucky, I found this somewhere in the web. It's a feature not documented in the cakewalk documents.

    (pause "The Current Track Is Number :- " (+ (GetCurrentTrack) 1) )

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    Andy H
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/11 23:34:57 (permalink)
    Although (GetCurrentTrack) is a useful function (thanks Serge), it only get's the number of the currently selected track. I think Duncan's looking for a function which returns the track number for a selected event.
    < Message edited by Andy H -- 11/11/2004 11:43:31 PM >
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    SergeD
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/12 12:32:04 (permalink)
    Hum, I see.

    I tried to find a way but Cal does not collaborate.

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    gugliel
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/16 06:55:07 (permalink)
    Cal seems to work with the channel number , Event.Chan . So I have resorted to setting channel numbers in a meaningful way when using many tracks. Then, one can modify events on a channel basis in cal.

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    DuncanBrinsmead
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/16 19:17:23 (permalink)
    Thanks for the help, fellows.
    I think I will be able to use "GetCurrentTrack".
    I'm not sure about using the channel number.. this would mean I would need to make all my events in the channel of the same number as the track, which seems a bit awkward. I try to keep everything in the first channel, although I admit to being somewhat confused as to how to take advantage of channels( currently they are more nuisance for me than anything else ).

    I tried to work around the problem by creating a panel with buttons that launch my track editing function on a particular track( so I don't need to enter it ). The panel button has a cal script that includes a variables file, sets the variables, then includes the main file (One of the variables is track number).

    If I could get the track for the event, however, that would be best.

    I've noticed people bemoaning not having arrays in CAL. Has anyone tried using a designated temporary scratch track for this purpose? One could store any number of events in different channels of a scratch track. These events could stand for real events, or could simply be abstract array data.

    Duncan
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    gugliel
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    RE: Finding the track for a selection 2004/11/18 08:43:08 (permalink)
    Interesting idea, Duncan ... I'll keep thinking about that. For my recent project, which is to create instrument-specific, key-specific, and time-specific pitch adjustments, I simply used a crude programming style where everything is put into the code in big nested if's. Works fine, as long as no critics every look at the programming style.

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