Appending Number to Modulator Name

[spiffo]

Ok, so I have 256 Modulators named sequentially:

Prog_Ch_Table_1
Prog_Ch_Table_2 …etc

I’m trying to get all their values in a loop like this:

for i = 1, 256 do
local Prog_Change_SysEx = panel:getModulatorByName(“Prog_Ch_Table_”..i):getModulatorValue()
end

But it’s giving me the ‘attempt to index a nil value’ error

I also tried forming a String instead, like this:

for i = 1, 256 do
local Prog_Change_String = string.format(“Prog_Ch_Table_%1d”, i)
local Prog_Change_SysEx = panel:getModulatorByName(Prog_Change_String):getModulatorValue()
end

But that gives me ‘attempt to index a nil value’ as well!

So what is the correct way to get the 256 Modulator Values in a loop?

As always your help is gratefully received!

[spiffo]

Ooops, my bad. I forgot I haven’t finished creating all 256 Modulators yet!

Actually both methods work fine, for the record 🙂

[human fly]

(oh dear i’m very rusty, need to get back into it) this was to collect button states into a table (used for other stuff afterwards). initialise a table first (here it’s local/temporary). here i was collecting a component property, but it’s the same thing with a modulator value. and then use table.insert. then you can make a string from your table.

function kgetcolour()	
local tbl_kitcolour={}
for i=1,5 do 
	local kitcolour=panel:getComponent("keydata"..i-):getProperty("uiButtonTextColourOff")
	table.insert(tbl_kitcolour,kitcolour)
end

edit: ah couldn’t seen the parentheses in your post!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by human fly.

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