Old 10-14-2019, 07:39 PM   #1
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I want to toggle FX enable within an action.

I found the SWS action "SWS: Open console with 'f' to toggle FX enable".

However, I can't find a way to close the console window immedately after this instruction to move to the next step.

I tried to use Edgemeal's post https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...11&postcount=2 without any luck.

Can anyone help?
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Old 10-14-2019, 07:57 PM   #2
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You'd need to change the title text to 'ReaConsole', e.g.,.

Code:
function CloseReaConsole()
  local title = reaper.JS_Localize('ReaConsole', "common")
  local hwnd = reaper.JS_Window_Find(title, true)
  if hwnd then reaper.JS_Window_Destroy(hwnd) end  
end

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Old 10-14-2019, 08:16 PM   #3
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Thanks Edgemeal for such a quick reply.

I tried your suggestion and although it did close the Console Window, a ReaScript console output window opened instead, which then has to be closed. (I may be missing something though).
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That code closes a window, not opens them! Check you code!

On another note, the code above was using 'reaper.JS_Window_FindTop', and that wouldn't work if the window was docked so I changed it to 'reaper.JS_Window_Find'.
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The original example does show a console message if the wait time hasn't been reached yet. Just remove the line with reaper.ShowConsoleMsg.
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Old 10-15-2019, 08:42 AM   #6
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Just remove the line with reaper.ShowConsoleMsg.

Thanks... that did it.
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Thanks... that did it.
Sorry I missed that.
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Old 10-16-2019, 06:39 PM   #8
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np... I'm just happy you had written this script. Thanks again.
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I am trying complete a custom action that will toggle the selected track's FX enabled using SWS: Open console with 'f' to toggle FX enable but if I follow with the CloseConsole(), the SWS command does not complete.

Prior to running CloseConsole(), how can I send an ENTER key command to accept whatever is in the Console window.

Although I briefly searched the .lua manual, it is a little overwhelming.
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I am trying complete a custom action


I found this in the API docs, seems to do the same thing that sws console thing is doing here,..

Code:
-- (-1) = bypass all if not all bypassed,otherwise unbypass all.
reaper.BypassFxAllTracks(-1)
EDIT
Although there are these actions,
Code:
Track: Bypass FX on all tracks
Track: Unbypass FX on all tracks
So now I'm not sure what you need, I don't even know what SWS console is, maybe it does more?.. never used it LOL!
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Old 10-18-2019, 11:55 AM   #11
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Thanks for the reply.

In the end, I was able to finish my Custom Action using only the Reaper and SWS commands without the need to open the Console window - and therefore no need to close it.

My goal, among others in my Custom Action, was to toggle FX Enable on selected tracks only.
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