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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: Custom button script help
I am trying to set up a custom button that will stop Acapella if it is selected and stop any samples playing. I am close...

action_deck 1 ? sampler_stop all & stem_pad Acapella : action_deck 2 ? sampler_stop all & stem_pad Acapella

This almost works, the sampler stops, but it toggles Acapella - where am I going wrong?
 
Posted yesterday @ 11:00 am 
action_deck 1 ? sampler_stop all & stem_pad Acapella ? stem_pad acapella : nothing : action_deck 2 ? sampler_stop all & stem_pad Acapella ? stem_pad acapella : nothing


query the stem pad, if on call it to toggle, if off do nothing.
 
Awesome, thanks

It suddenly twigged that they are based on ternary operators, it would be helpful to make that distinction near the start. But generally the VDJscript documents are pretty hard to wade through.

I notice in the list of verbs against 
stem_pad
it says 
mute a stem (or isolate if pressed with Shift).
.

Perhaps plain English would make them easier to understand 
mute a stem (or activate if pressed with Shift).
 
user30376688 wrote :
...are based on ternary operators, it would be helpful to make that distinction near the start. But generally the VDJscript documents are pretty hard to wade through.


That you know what ternary operators are makes me think you'll be alright,
script is a language so you've got to practice to actually get it at an intuitive level and languages are never 100% consistent, really verbs are just function calls, some with default parms and many overloads.

If you want the verbose guide, skim thru my topics in this thread scriptSchool
A bit entry level but a skim thru will give you some insight.