I would like have the ability to have a persistent Reminder Note (like a digital 3M Post-It Note), displayed on various Songs in my GP set lists. I have tried the Message Action but it displays only for a brief time. If there was a way to have the message persistent that could work. It seems the Comment plug-in would work but it looks like I would need a variation for every song to have different notes.
I am just wondering if there fairly straight forward way to pin a message/note
If there was a post about this already, I apologize for the repeat but most of my results come up with stuck midi notes, etc.
You can put a Text label widget in the Global rackspace and give it a handle.
Then in the first song part of each song, add a Set Widget Caption action and add the reminders for that song in the caption field. When you switch songs, the caption will change to the appropriate reminder.
Am I reading the question wrong? Why do you need a complicated solution just to display a reminder note on each song? I just add text or tape widgets to the song panel.
You added it to a local rackspace panel, which is fine if that’s the only song you’re going to use that rackspace in. If you’re sharing rackspaces between songs, a different solution applies.
Personally, I use one rackspace with one panel most of the time. But, if I set up a variation and associate an already used rackspace with that panel, I can put different notes on that panel (which might be a different song). And, I can copy one panel to another and make whatever changes I need to the new panel still using the same rackspace. What am I missing?
You’re missing that the user is in setlist mode and different song parts of the same or a different song can refer to the same rackspace and so the contents of the text widget need to be different for different song parts.
His statement was “displayed on various Songs in my GP set lists.” If the text widget is in the song panel rather than the global panel, then the text would change when you change songs or song parts. And then a panel (not the global one) on top of a rackspace can have values different from other songs/song parts even though they may sit on top of the same rackspace. Just seemed logical to me.
There is no such thing as a “song panel”. Song parts always display rackspace panels and if multiple song parts use the same rackspace, then text widgets wouldn’t change.
Again thanks for this. My next question would be, is there a setting I can use to set the label as blank (like a default reset) when I don’t need a note. I am just curious if there is so I don’t have to add an set caption action for every song. Thanks
If you add this little script to the Global rackspace, it should clear the label when you switch songs. Then, if there’s an action to add a caption, it will. If there isn’t, the label stays blank.
My GPScript handle for the text label widget is cap, so change that to whatever you are using for a handle on that widget.
Var
cap : Widget
On Song(oldSongIndex : integer, newSongIndex : integer)
SetWidgetLabel(cap,"")
End
