How to configure action states in the Property Inspector

[MarcWeustink]

Hi, in the manifest.json one can define multiple states for a certain action (as a test I defined 8 states). Some questions arise:

• In the property inspector only for the first 2 states, label and the image can be edited. How about the others
• Is it possible to get a notification in the PI that a different state is selected
• Is there a way to prevent SD to cycle through the states when the button is pressed ? I want to control the state through the plugin.

Thanks Marc

[ChekTek]

Unfortunately, the Stream Deck application only officially supports 2 states at this time. Adding better support for more has been added as a ticket for the Stream Deck core team to prioritize.

There is no way to directly get notified when the state changes in the property inspector, however you could use the sendToPropertyInspector event whenever you change the state in your plugin to let the property inspector know that the state has changed. https://docs.elgato.com/sdk/plugins/events-sent#sendtopropertyinspector

You can prevent Stream Deck from cycling states automatically by using the DisableAutomaticStates flag in your manifest.json file. https://docs.elgato.com/sdk/plugins/manifest

[MarcWeustink]

Thanks for your answer.
I indeed might have read somewhere that only 2 states were possible. That explains why I, when I started to integrate SD to our application, I manage myself the states and images belonging to them (depending in the configuration, in what context a button is used, it can have multiple states). At at later stage, when reading about states in the manifest documentation, there isn't a note about a limitation, so I tried that. Since if all the states could be configured and handled by SD, I don't have to send the state images from the plugin to the SD each time a state changes.
BTW when editing of multiple states is made available, it would be nice

• to have a notification in the PI of the current state being edited so the PI can show additional properties for that state.
• to have control which state is edited (to set the current state, to prevent a certain state to be edited)