How can I get a Clip object for a ClipLauncherSlot?

Question

I have a ClipLauncherSlot in Bitwig API, and I'd like to get ahold of the Clip within it so I can transpose it on user input.

The docs aren't online that I know of, so I can't link to them. But extensive searching has yielding absolutely no way of getting ahold of Clip objects in general.

Answer 1

I think you're supposed to work with a CursorClip.

Instead of directly accessing the clip, you access it through a CursorClip. The CursorClip will follow your selection and always represent the currently selected clip.

Something like this:

CursorClip cursorClip = host.createLauncherCursorClip()
clipLauncherSlot.select()
// Now your cursorClips represents the desired clip.
cursorClip.transpose()

Not entirely sure about the exact implementation, maybe you have to do some additonal steps for the cursor to correctly follow, but something like this should work.

See also here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=550738 for a similar problem. They had some problems with execution time, keep that in mind if you run into unexpected behaviour.