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Toggle Button: Assign Value Value?

ToneytimeToneytime
in Loopy Pro

I’m seeking to have a button function as an On/Off indicator for Armed state. Is there an any creative way to have the button highlighted and remain while value true, such as send toggle explicit values of true false instead of “here’s a trigger, flip to opposite”?

Currently in doing this with two hidden buttons assigning value 1 or 0 to a slider, but sliders miss out on lots of gestures I am seeking to add like swipe down.

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  • oscillotusoscillotus
    edited August 2025

    @Toneytime said:
    I’m seeking to have a button function as an On/Off indicator for Armed state. Is there an any creative way to have the button highlighted and remain while value true, such as send toggle explicit values of true false instead of “here’s a trigger, flip to opposite”?

    Currently in doing this with two hidden buttons assigning value 1 or 0 to a slider, but sliders miss out on lots of gestures I am seeking to add like swipe down.

    I'm not sure if this would work for your situation, but you could have a dial with the parameters on it and a button set to "trigger widget (the dial)" - nudge.

  • PapaBPoppinPapaBPoppin
    edited August 2025

    @Toneytime said:
    I’m seeking to have a button function as an On/Off indicator for Armed state. Is there an any creative way to have the button highlighted and remain while value true, such as send toggle explicit values of true false instead of “here’s a trigger, flip to opposite”?

    Currently in doing this with two hidden buttons assigning value 1 or 0 to a slider, but sliders miss out on lots of gestures I am seeking to add like swipe down.

    Are you looking for an indicator that an Audio Source is un/muted?

    Or that a donut is armed to record?

    Forgive me, just trying to parse the direct problem a little bit more

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @Toneytime said:
    I’m seeking to have a button function as an On/Off indicator for Armed state. Is there an any creative way to have the button highlighted and remain while value true, such as send toggle explicit values of true false instead of “here’s a trigger, flip to opposite”?

    Currently in doing this with two hidden buttons assigning value 1 or 0 to a slider, but sliders miss out on lots of gestures I am seeking to add like swipe down.

    An on-screen button and off-screen slider or stepped dial should be all you need. I use that.

  • ToneytimeToneytime
    edited August 2025

    Ah thanks for replies- to follow up

    For more context - I am (new to LP) using it more as a UI to Ableton and not yet for audio looping (I’ll get one day, I’m just not ready to give Ableton up yet haha). I have the arm state of Ableton (using Live API listener + CSS3) sending midi to two off screen LP buttons (One for arm one for disarm). These buttons are assigning value to slider and works. My limitation then is trying to add more functions to the slider like it was a button (swipe down for mute, , swipe right to solo, etc)

    I chose a slider just cause I could not figure out button toggle, if I could assign value to button toggle then I think I’d be in business.

    If it also adds more context, my desired state is
    1. The arm on LP is in sync with the arm of relevant Ableton track
    2. The arming and disarming can happen equally from Ableton or LP and keep them in sync

    So I’ve got those two working, it’s just because it’s a slider instead of a button manage “time to be red, ok now time to be grey”

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @Toneytime said:
    Ah thanks for replies- to follow up

    For more context - I am (new to LP) using it more as a UI to Ableton and not yet for audio looping (I’ll get one day, I’m just not ready to give Ableton up yet haha). I have the arm state of Ableton (using Live API listener + CSS3) sending midi to two off screen LP buttons (One for arm one for disarm). These buttons are assigning value to slider and works. My limitation then is trying to add more functions to the slider like it was a button (swipe down for mute, , swipe right to solo, etc)

    I chose a slider just cause I could not figure out button toggle, if I could assign value to button toggle then I think I’d be in business.

    If it also adds more context, my desired state is
    1. The arm on LP is in sync with the arm of relevant Ableton track
    2. The arming and disarming can happen equally from Ableton or LP and keep them in sync

    So I’ve got those two working, it’s just because it’s a slider instead of a button manage “time to be red, ok now time to be grey”

    Let me clarify my earlier post. If you want to toggle the slider for the main action, set up a slider that will be controlled by a button. Set up the slider first to perform the the send midi action you want.

    Create a button whose press action is to toggle the slider between maximum and minimum. You can add whatever other gesture operations you need to the button. You might have the slider hidden on another page to streamline the u.i.

    You can also use stepped dials for toggling:

    https://wiki.loopypro.com/Stepped_Dials#Using_Dials_As_Toggles

    You can control such dials from buttons if you need additional gestures.

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