Hello George,
the problem I see is that, when you try to save data to the qtz file
from a plugin point of view, you don't have any connections back to
your container file where your plugin instance was originally
extracted from. So I see no way for a plugin to find the host
composition file to store data in.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Best,
Achim Breidenbach
Boinx Software
On 03.05.2010, at 07:29, George Toledo wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jerry Smith <je...@sonsmi.com> wrote:
Thanks for the feedback, Chris and Achim.
I am writing before coming back to this -- I was thinking there
could be a
solution using logic/conditionals. The Signal patch could trigger a
Sample
and Hold on startup, right? Macros/patches keep their values, so why
so
difficult?
Sample and Hold only has a Virtual input. Virtual data isn't able to
be stored to file, or in-composition. Trying to store something
across Open and Saves with Sample and Hold is going to be a gigantic
time burner, and doesn't work.
It would be technically possible to have a version of Sample and
Hold that embedded data in the qtz, and it could do it with any data
type, save for Virtual. The Kineme Value Historian is a version of
this concept that will store many data types, but not Images,
Virtual, Interaction, Structure or other non-standard types. Yes, it
does have Virtual Inputs, but stores a few different data types
through conversion.
I don't think that Value Historian is configured in a way that makes
it an instant replacement for Sample and Hold, but you may be able
to make it work for you. It could very well be extended to save
other data types, and you may want to file a feature request, or
request a quote if there is some functionality that you need that
isn't there.
I don't believe Achim is correct that data cannot be stored in-
composition with a custom patch. Any data type is able to be
embedded in a qtz, though large file sizes can cause problems when
attempting to run the resulting qtz. There shouldn't be a technical
problem with recording user data to the actual qtz file, and having
a patch have a setting to retrieve that data.
Best,
George Toledo
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