How to focus a plot window?

1

Hi all,

Does anyone know how I can focus a plot window? Do I need to put the plot in a window? Here is an example.

Thanks!
//This doesn’t work - ERROR: Message ‘front’ not understood
~plot1 = Signal.newClear(2048/2).plot;
~plot1.front;
~plot1.alwaysOnTop_(true);
~plot1.alwaysOnTop_(false);

// But this does
~window1 = Window(“window1”, Rect(20, 30, 520, 450));
~window1.front;
~window1.alwaysOnTop_(true);
~window1.alwaysOnTop_(false);

2

In the first example, you’re not passing in a window to the method so the object (I think it’s a Plot or Plotter but don’t remember) doesn’t have a method. You have to pass the plot’s parent window to .alwaysOnTop_(true)

FWIW .front just makes the window visible. It doesn’t focus it.

3

Ah thanks, oh yeah of-course trying to get the signal go to the front isn’t going to work :rofl: that was a bad idea of mine. Do you know how I access the plot? I just want my midi controller to be able to switch between different plots.

Thanks again

4

You could plot in the midi message and then also close the other windows in the same midi message if you want a new window each time.

JS

5

The parent view (a Window in this case) of Plotter is stored in the .parent method. Try ~plot1.parent.front;.