Hi,
Thanks for JUCE and the Jucer - great stuff.
It would be really really useful to be able to enter a symbol name (or even short code snippets) as well as numeric values for object parameters. For example, I have a file full of parameter defaults, max values and min values. It would make things much cleaner if it was possible to use those instead of numeric values entered into the Jucer.
Ian
Not really sure how you’d imagine that to work… E.g. if I set a component’s position in terms of my own code snippet, how could the jucer possibly know where to show the component?
Not really thinking of it for position.
I’m thinking of it more for things like slider max value, min value, etc. For example, when writing a plug-in, it is not uncommon to have a file full of constants defined for this as they often need to be used in a few different places (and for readability).
It seems like it should be relatively easy to change. I would guess the Jucer is storing a floating point value that is converted from the string entered into the Jucer. If that floating point was stored as a string and evaluated as needed (for example, when previewing the UI), this could be made to work. The Jucer could continue to work as it does for numeric strings, and set the control range to it’s current 0-10 default range when it gets a string, which, as you point out, it will not know how to parse.
It’d be an awful lot of work to change the way all the parameters work, and to add some kind of parser to do that!
