Cont'd work on route-templates

gtk2_ardour/add_route_dialog.cc

@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ AddRouteDialog::trk_template_row_selected ()
 			trk_template_desc.set_sensitive (true);
 
 			manual_label.set_sensitive (false);
-			add_label.set_sensitive (false);
+			add_label.set_sensitive (rs.find ("how_many") != rs.end ());
 			type_label.set_sensitive (false);
 
 			name_label.set_sensitive (rs.find ("name") != rs.end());
@@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ AddRouteDialog::trk_template_row_selected ()
 			}
 
 			if ((it = rs.find ("how_many")) != rs.end()) {
+				if (atoi (it->second.c_str()) > 0) {
 					routes_adjustment.set_value (atoi (it->second.c_str()));
 				}
+			}
 
 			if ((it = rs.find ("track_mode")) != rs.end()) {
 				switch ((ARDOUR::TrackMode) atoi (it->second.c_str())) {
@@ -342,6 +344,8 @@ AddRouteDialog::trk_template_row_selected ()
 							mode_combo.set_active_text (_("Tape"));
 						}
 						break;
+					default: // "NonLayered" enum is still present for session-format compat
+						break;
 				}
 			}
 
@@ -368,7 +372,7 @@ AddRouteDialog::trk_template_row_selected ()
 			trk_template_desc.set_sensitive (true);
 
 			manual_label.set_sensitive (false);
-			add_label.set_sensitive (false);
+			add_label.set_sensitive (true);
 			type_label.set_sensitive (false);
 			name_label.set_sensitive (true);
 			group_label.set_sensitive (false);
@@ -743,6 +747,7 @@ AddRouteDialog::refill_channel_setups ()
 	}
 
 	trk_template_model->clear();
+	bool selected_default = false;
 
 	/* Add any Lua scripts (factory templates) found in the scripts folder */
 	LuaScriptList& ms (LuaScripting::instance ().scripts (LuaScriptInfo::EditorAction));
@@ -751,7 +756,8 @@ AddRouteDialog::refill_channel_setups ()
 			continue;
 		}
 		TreeModel::Row row;
-		if ( (*s)->name == "Add tracks") {  //somewhat-special, most-used template
+		if ( (*s)->name == "Create Audio Tracks Interactively" && Profile->get_mixbus ()) {
+			// somewhat-special, Ben says: "most-used template"
 			row = *(trk_template_model->prepend ());
 		} else {
 			row = *(trk_template_model->append ());
@@ -761,8 +767,9 @@ AddRouteDialog::refill_channel_setups ()
 		row[track_template_columns.description] = (*s)->description;
 		row[track_template_columns.created_with] = _("{Factory Template}");
 
-		if ( (*s)->name == "Add tracks") {  //somewhat-special, most-used template
+		if ((*s)->name == "Create Audio Tracks Interactively" && Profile->get_mixbus ()) {
 			trk_template_chooser.get_selection()->select(row);
+			selected_default = true;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -785,6 +792,10 @@ AddRouteDialog::refill_channel_setups ()
 	row[track_template_columns.description] = _("Use the controls, below, to add tracks.");
 	row[track_template_columns.created_with] = "";
 
+	if (!selected_default) {
+		trk_template_chooser.get_selection()->select(row);
+	}
+
 	set_popdown_strings (channel_combo, channel_combo_strings);
 
 	if (!channel_current_choice.empty()) {

gtk2_ardour/session_dialog.cc

@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ SessionDialog::populate_session_templates ()
 	LuaScriptList& ms (LuaScripting::instance ().scripts (LuaScriptInfo::SessionInit));
 	for (LuaScriptList::const_iterator s = ms.begin(); s != ms.end(); ++s) {
 		TreeModel::Row row = *(template_model->append ());
-		row[session_template_columns.name] = "Meta: " + (*s)->name;
+		row[session_template_columns.name] = (*s)->name;
 		row[session_template_columns.path] = "urn:ardour:" + (*s)->path;
 		row[session_template_columns.description] = (*s)->description;
 		row[session_template_columns.created_with_short] = _("{Factory Template}");

scripts/_route_template_generic_midi.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+ardour {
+	["type"]    = "EditorAction",
+	name        = "Generic MIDI Track",
+	description = [[Example]]
+}
+
+-- If a route_setup function is present in an Editor Action Script
+-- the script is also listed in the "add track/bus" dialog as meta-template
+--
+-- The function is expected to return a Lua table. The table may be empty.
+function route_setup ()
+	return
+	{
+		-- keys control which AddRouteDialog controls are made sensitive.
+		-- The following keys accept a default value to pre-seed the dialog.
+		['how_many'] = 1,
+		['name'] = 'MIDI',
+		['channels'] = nil,
+		['track_mode'] = nil,
+		['strict_io'] = true,
+		-- these keys just need to be set (to something other than nil)
+		-- in order to set the control sensitives
+		['insert_at'] = ARDOUR.PresentationInfo.max_order,
+		['group'] = false, -- return value will be a RouteGroup*
+		['instrument'] = true, -- return value will be a PluginInfoPtr
+	}
+end
+
+-- The Script can be used as EditorAction in which case it can
+-- optionally provide instantiation parmaters
+function action_params ()
+	return
+	{
+		['how_many']   = { title = "How Many tracks to add", default = "1" },
+		["name"]       = { title = "Track Name Prefix", default = "MIDI" },
+		["instrument"] = { title = "Add Instrument", default = "true" },
+	}
+end
+
+
+function factory (params) return function ()
+	-- When called from the AddRouteDialog, 'params' will be a table with
+	-- keys as described in route_setup() above.
+
+	local p          = params or route_setup ()
+	local name       = p["name"] or 'Audio'
+	local how_many   = p["how_many"] or 1
+	local insert_at  = p["insert_at"] or ARDOUR.PresentationInfo.max_order;
+	local group      = p["group"] or nil
+	local strict_io  = p["strict_io"] or false
+	local instrument = p["instrument"] or nil
+
+	-- used in 'action-script mode'
+	if instrument == "true" then
+		instrument = ARDOUR.LuaAPI.new_plugin_info ("http://gareus.org/oss/lv2/gmsynth", ARDOUR.PluginType.LV2) -- general midi synth
+		if instrument:isnil () then
+			instrument = ARDOUR.LuaAPI.new_plugin_info ("https://community.ardour.org/node/7596", ARDOUR.PluginType.LV2) -- reasonable synth
+		end
+		if instrument:isnil () then
+			LuaDialog.Message ("MIDI track add", "Cannot find instrument plugin",
+				LuaDialog.MessageType.Info, LuaDialog.ButtonType.Close):run ()
+			return
+		end
+	end
+
+	-- add no instrument
+	if type (instrument) ~= "userdata" then
+		instrument = ARDOUR.PluginInfo ()
+	end
+
+	Session:new_midi_track(
+		ARDOUR.ChanCount(ARDOUR.DataType ("midi"), 1),
+		ARDOUR.ChanCount(ARDOUR.DataType ("audio"), 2),
+		strict_io,
+		instrument, nil,
+		group, how_many, name, insert_at, ARDOUR.TrackMode.Normal)
+
+end end

scripts/route_template_interactive_audio.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ardour {
 	["type"]    = "EditorAction",
-	name        = "Create Audio Tracks interactively",
+	name        = "Create Audio Tracks Interactively",
 	description = [[
 This template creates audio tracks.