Right click menu in PT to expand field recorder channels to new tracks by Match criteria

Just got my stream deck and I am now a happy user of SoundFlow.

There is this one little thing that I just can't hack.

I want to make a macro or script, that emulates a right click on a selection on a track, so that I can expand the channel to new tracks by match criteria.

I can make SoundFlow do the right click, and the menu does pop up, but I can't seem to get SoundFlow to select items from the menu and sub-menus that pops up.

Do you have any clues?

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Welcome on board :)

You need to use the "Open & Select Item in Popup Menu" action and use the advanced parameters to set it to right click.
I think though this would need to be a script if you want it to automatically click on the selection and not where your mouse already is.

I think I have some scripts for this somewhere that we can add.

Tagging onto this thread.
I've added an "Open and Select Item in Popup Menu" command, used the advanced parameters to make it a right click, and I get an error message saying error in line 0: Error invoking popupMenu.select. I'm guessing my mistake is not selecting the correct UI element, but I'm not sure what else to select. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I was able to get this working by using "Get Mouse Position", dragging the output of that to the input of the "Open Popup Menu from Absolute Position" command with a right click, and then using the "Click Popup Menu" command to get the "Matching Field Recorder Channels: Match Criteria. " window. Is there a better way to do this?

Dustin Harris @ Dustin_Harris

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Check this thread out, maybe it would be useful to you?

Christian Scheuer @ chrscheuer

• SoundFlow Team

Very impressive progress on this :) You're probably doing it as well as possible with a macro.
To really make it work well, you'd have to use a script unfortunately, as the combination of UI macros & the concept of the selected track, don't really work super well together yet.

 sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.titleButton.popupMenuSelect(< isRightClick: true, menuPath: ['Expand Channels To New Tracks', 'By Match Criteria'], >); var matchCriteriaWin = sf.ui.proTools.windows.whoseTitle.is('Field Recorder Channels Match Criteria').first; //Wait for the Match Criteria window to appear matchCriteriaWin.elementWaitFor(); //Click Reset matchCriteriaWin.buttons.whoseTitle.is('Reset').first.elementClick(); 

Thanks @Dustin_Harris and @chrscheuer! These are great and very helpful. I'm slowly trying to teach myself Javascript so that I can access the more powerful features of Soundflow.

Dustin Harris @ Dustin_Harris

• SoundFlow Team

@Brad I didn't know anything about Javascript until I got soundFlow as well, and I'm slowly learning too :)
@chrscheuer sent me this link a while ago and its fantastic: