Controlling a COMP Button "value" with a CHOP

Beginners
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Likely a noob question but I can’t seem to reference the value parameter of a Button COMP with a count CHOP that outputs 0 or 1.

In short, I want to create a big red button that lights up when the toggle is on (chop outputs a 1) and off when it’s off (chop outputs a 0). Some sort of network warning saying “this component is on”

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Does it have to be an interactive button, or are you just looking to create an indicator? It’s not trivial to set a button’s value from a CHOP value, but it’s very trivial to change the Fill Alpha on a Rectangle TOP change based on a CHOP value.

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Hello,

Since some version of TD, in the Button page of the parameters, you have a Value switch. Its very easy to change the state of the button changing the state of the value.

Jacques

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Thanks! This is what I was looking for. Two takeaways: 1. I guess I have to familiarize with more of TDs operators and 2) why is not trivial to set it? I was using the regular python syntax op(‘object’)[‘key’] which seemed like the right choice. Any articles would help!

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Thanks Jacques! This is what I was trying but didn’t work. I assume that it has to do with the way CHOP and COMP operators interact.