The Harmonizer
Programmer’s Manual
The Harmonizer
Programmer’s Manual Page 45 of 97 Release 1.2.1
1999 Eventide, Inc.
Menupages and Parameter Placement
The use of menupage modules to create menu pages in the
PARAMETER area is crucial for creating easy to use programs. This
section discusses many of the fine points of menu creation. There
are several important points regarding
PARAMETER area menu pages
and their construction in VSigfile:
• Unconnected userobject inputs have no effect on the way things
look in the
PARAMETER area.
• Any userobject output that is connected to the head module
creates a SOFT KEY.
The order that a userobject is connected to the head module determines what location the
SOFT KEY will
appear in the
PARAMETER menu. The first userobject output gets the first SOFT KEY. The fifth userobject gets
the fifth
SOFT KEY and so on.
• The order that a userobject is connected to a
menupage module determines where on
a
PARAMETER area menu page it will
appear.
Objects are placed on a menu in upper left to
lower right order, as listed in the menupage
module.
If a module’s PARAMETER area graphic is too
large to appear on a menu page with other
modules’ graphics, it is placed on a later menu
page in a menu stack, thus creating a
SOFT
KEY
stack.
• menupage modules may be connected to other
menupage modules! A menupage userobject output is the
same as any other module’s userobject output, except that a
menupage userobject output is always big enough to warrant
being placed on its own menu page or pages in the
