I’m pretty experienced in scripting, mainly web related, but a few different languages. I’ve dabbled in AppleScript as well. Thought about C (or the various flavors of it) but never committed to learning. After some time I have decided to try my hand at scripting for Reaper, the DAW.<\/p>\n
In my first attempt I wanted to get the name of a selected track in a project and simply display that in a message to verify I was getting it correctly. But I kept getting errors. Errors I wasn’t immediately about to figure out. It seems silly now that I have it, but this is the sort of thing you can expect when learning a new language. And sadly the Reaper API Documentation<\/a> doesn’t come with examples or much help in sorting it all out. I spent quite a while searching online and the Reaper forums<\/a> trying to find an answer for why my script wasn’t working.<\/p>\n So hopefully this snippet could save you some time. Select a track and run the script. If no track is selected you’ll be asked to select one. Otherwise you’ll see a message displaying the name of the track you selected followed by the name of the track in the console window.<\/p>\nsel_track = reaper.GetSelectedTrack(0,0)\r\n\r\nif sel_track then\r\n -- do things to the track\r\n _, sel_track_name = reaper.GetTrackName(sel_track, \"\")\r\n reaper.ShowMessageBox(sel_track_name,\"Selected Track:\",0)\r\n reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(sel_track_name)\r\nelse\r\n reaper.ShowMessageBox(\"Please select a track!\", \"Error\", 0)\r\nend<\/code><\/pre>\n