Im having a problem while changing the color of a bng.

The abstraction works if the first bank is selected with no errors. But when any other bank is selected I get the errors thrown in the screen cap. The odd thing is I can set the label just fine but when it comes to the color I cant figure out how to get this to work.

I originally thought the bug was happening because of how the banks are selected but that is not the case. The reason I came to that conclusion is the labels are being set correctly no matter what bank is selected and both the color and label are being triggered from the same float.

OBPatternSelectorBtn.pd

So for some reason
[;
$1-patternbtn-recv color 21/

is acting like a object. Or as obviously stated in the console the object can not be found. is there a different way to send the color change other then this method?
One thing I know for sure if i disconnect the [; $1-patternbtn-recv 21/ message and OBSBSelectorActiveBtnColorChange abstraction all of the errors go away.

I have to mention this is part of a cloned abstraction provided in case the issue stems from here I'm not sure.

OBPatternSelectorClone.pd

@RetroMaximus Hard to tell without the whole patch. I will guess that the receive names are still indexed 1-16?....... but I will be wrong because of the performing labels?
If "patterns" is an abstraction you could have each one close and another pop up with vis 0 and vis 1 messages, or you could have them all in a sub-window and slide the gop over them to reveal the active one.
That way each pattern could have its numbers and colors set simply by arguments for the abstraction, without any need for changes.
David.

Well I could have swore I tried this variation of the abstraction but it seams to work now. I had to modify the way the color is changed and this seams to be working now.

I had to remove the color message and send the arguments through a symbol displayed in the screen cap.

As for setting a color as a creation argument I have no idea how to do that. Im only aware of how to set a creation index. Hope you can point me to and example of that.

I will admit I am dealing with some spaghetti code and now that the errors are gone.

The color changes and not consistent. :/

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So are you saying can do something like this for each of the bng's in the pad selector abstraction? [padbtn 1 21 47] then use [$1] [$2] [$3] inside of the abstraction or somthing to that effect? I thought i read somewhere I was only able to use 1 creation argument? < I could be making that up. idk lol

@RetroMaximus The is no limit that I know of to the quantity of arguments for an abstraction, and you can use floats and symbols (although the first [$1] should be a float).
But using [clone] where there is no way of defining them.......
For [clone] you are stuck with just the one and it is really just an index.
For colours you could use that index and do some math I suppose.
David.