How to detect when gigfile has finished loading? How to detect when rackspace is ready?

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@dhj

GigLoaded System callback

IMO you should definitely be making use of this. Myself and others normally use OSC as an easy mechanism to communicate between the Gig Script and Local Global rackspace scripts. You could also likely inject a midi message into the Local GP Port, and use the midi callbacks to pick this up in a global rackspace.

As you are getting more adventurous, you may also want to look into extensions, such as this one that @Frank1119 created:

An extension for storing global variables

The variables declared in gpscript are only visible in the script where they are declared, for example a rack-script, gig script, scriptlet or song-script. But sometimes it comes in handy to have some variables available everywhere. Therefore, I created this extension. It extends gpscript with some functions to created a ‘store’ with variables. These variables can be access by all scripts using these functions. Disclaimer: This is version 0.0.1, so use at your own risk. Feel free to clone it an…