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I managed to significantly reduce the file size by reducing the sizes of the pictures I used in this panel (the “resources”). So now the upload was successful.

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Thanks for the reply. That’s odd, because, though in the past, I did upload several
panels of about 2 Mb. And in the upload window it says 16 Mb max, but I think that is the max sum of all the uploaded files together. I’m not sure if I can compress my panel to 1 Mb.

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No problem using dropbox. I did upload the file already, but to send you the link I need your email address. Maybe you can send me a PM?

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Hi,
I have version 5.3.122. I didn’t work with Ctrlr for quite awhile but I seem to remember I did stick with this version exactly because of the background image problem. I did a quick check if this version does load a background and it did. No 100% guarantee of course;-). I can send you the program file using WeTransfer, but I’m not sure if that is all you need. I don’t have the original instal folder. Just let me know.

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No, I didn’t code outside CTRL.

To be frank, I (almost) giving up trying to use CTRL for building MIDI interfaces. I’m looking into other ways, like JUCE. But JUCE is at the moment a too steep learning curve for me, thought the community is very helpful. MAX is another possibiity and also Lemur and TBStuff are candidates, but that software is primarily for the iPad.

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no idea, sorry.

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If you start with a new panel you can open the Lua editor (menu: Panel>Lua Editor). There you can add a new method and add your “test” code. In your code you can use the console to output data etc. to the console window e.g

console(string.format(“Weird char: %d, %d”, midiParam, i))

This code sends the text “Weird char:” plus the value (in this case) of the variable ‘midiParam’ to the console window.

This is a way to check your code. I think you cannot use the console window as input for Lua code, at least I never used it that way. To find about the way you can use Lua with a panel you should download a few panels with Lua code. This is the download link: http://ctrlr.org/panels/ (This link used to be present on the forum site (under downloads), but has recently disappeared for unknown reasons.)

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I’m not sure why this all happens all of the sudden. We should get the attention of Roman (Atom), but he is either awful busy or still hibernating ;-).

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Exactly one year ago I did have a extensive email communication with Roman about this Mac build issue. I offered some help with trying to find a Mac Mini in The Netherlands (where I live), because I think they are cheaper than in Poland and there is more second hand supply, I guess. But he did not take up my offer. So as the second best option for me I tried to build Mac versions of CTRLR using Xcode v7.2.1 myself. In the beginning I encountered many problems and vague error messages, but with the help of Roman I came a long way. But finally I reached the point that in some or another way I had to do code fixing and at that point Roman told me to leave it, which made sense from his point view (I quote his answer): “Then leave it for now, since i develop mainly on Windows/Linux there will be issues on OSX and whoever is doing the build needs to know how to fix them, otherwise i need to do it, and that’s not the point.“. So I did not put any energy anymore in trying to build CTRLR for Mac. So still the best option, I think, is Roman gets enough money to buy a Mac. And I’m willing to donate (again), if others do also. I’m not sure but I think about 300 euro should be enough. As there is already raised an amount of $ 125, which is roughly 120 euro, we need (only) 180 euro or so…

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Unfortunately the amount of funds raised was not enough to buy the Mac hardware, as you can check out on de fund raise page. Atom also proposed that somebody else did the OS X builds. I tried to do that, but for me the learning curve was/is too steep. I’m still willing to do the builds, but need guidance until I know my way around, because I’m not a professional programmer. If there is any chance of a positive result for a decent Mac build, I’m willing to put my time into it, because I do have the time (and patience). But again: I need help.

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That’s the reason why I still use version 5.3.122 on my Mac (El Capitan). Higher versions don’t display image resources, though they do appear as resource in CTRLR.

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This code formatting in a message works for me now also. Thanks! Will make a note of this, tend to forget all this useful stuff ;-).

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Today I did use the latest Mac build 5.3.198, but same result, error message: no such operator defined. Also when I load a panel made in a previous version, midi in and out don’t work. Only when I make a panel from scratch does de MIDI I/O work. I wish atom would shed some light on all this…

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First I did download the latest Windows version, but it appeared that the panel I had made on the Mac would not send or receive MIDI in the Windows version. So I had to copy all the code manually. (I also had to adjust all the buttons and the labels, because font (and the screen resolution??) differ from the Mac.) This finally worked, but when I did add the “problematic” code, Ctrlr crashed and I could no load any panel anymore, all my work was lost! So I went back to Mac and tried your suggestion of using CtrlLuaBigInteger, but the same error message. So I downloaded the latest Mac version (I don’t use that one because it won’t load resources like images), but the same as on Windows, the panel would not send or receive MIDI. So I probably have to copy again manually all the code. For now I have had enough, maybe tomorrow I feel more up to the task again 😉 Thanks for the reply and advice!

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to put code on a post, select the text and press the button “code”.

Doesn’t seem to work for my code-snippet…

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Thanks Possemo for the reply. I do receive bytes in the method, because the console shows their value. With the code example below I get the error. When I comment out the line with BigInteger I don’t get the error message. So I think in one way or another BigInteger is not defined… This is the code I use, which is almost the same as yours (sorry for the layout):

local t1
	local t2
	local t3
	local byte
	
	sizeMidi = midi:getData():getSize()
	msgtype= midi:getType()
	if sizeMidi > 2500 then
		for i = 1,8 do
			t1 = midi:getData():getByte(i);
			t2 = midi:getData():getByte(i+1)
			console("t1=: "..t1)
			console("t2=: "..t2)
			byte = (t1)+(t2*16)
			console("byte=: "..byte)
			t3=BigInteger(byte)
			console("value: "..t3)
		end
	end

This is not the code I actually need, but without BigInteger I’m afraid (or pretty sure) getBitRangeAsInt won’t work either and I need that to work to be able to operate on bit level. Any input much appreciated.

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Well, I did try version 5.3.198, but no MIDI in and no MIDI out activity detected (so none of the components work) and the ‘panel background image’ tells me ‘no choices’ even after I added a png file… So still trouble and for the time being I stick with 5.3.122.

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I did save this panel yesterday evening just before I quit (went to bed). I usually save every 15 minutes or even more often, especially when I have done a lot of programming. When I openend this morning this panel all Lua methods were gone, except of course the build ins. Luckily a panel of 2 days old was still in the trash, so I could use that one as a start…

In the meantime I did found out the fundraising yielded $ 125 (of $ 500), so that is probably not enough to let Roman buy a Mac computer. So I urge every Mac user of CTRLR to contribute in on way or another to help him out. It is our own interest!

I will now make it a habit of saving my panel “versioned” and I will try version 5.3.198.

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Solved! I think my skills have become a bit rusty. I forgot to call the function on the panel level, where you can call functions related to the various events like when the panel receives a midi message or when the panel has finished loading. So far things are OK now. (But still have to use version 5.3.122 for Mac, because higher versions refuse to display image resources…)

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A pity you didn’t reach your goal! Hopefully your Lenovo Mac Mini does the job and you may even going to appreciate a Mac ;-).

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