Slider won't save new names? Reverts back to 'Slider'

Beginners
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Hey guys - Does anyone else have a problem renaming and saving sliders?

I’ll go into the container and Change the ‘Text’ field within the Text TOP and it will update the interface and everything looks fine.

But now more than 8 times when I save it, then close it and open it back up - all of my sliders have been set back to ‘Slider’ in the Text field…

I’m able to rename and save buttons just fine - only the sliders will rename them selves back to the default.

Am I missing something here? :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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Which sliders are you using? Are they the Slider COMP or are you grabbing sliders from the palette?

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They’re the TUIK Sliders from the pallete browser. For example the ‘sliderhorz’ is one that does this.

If you go in the slider COMP there are 2 TOP’s - one of them being a Text TOP. I assumed that I would edit the text field here and this would rename the string displayed on the gui slider. I tried it and it worked.

But whenever I save the project file and re-open, the Text TOP within that container has changed back to say ‘Slider’ in the Text field.

So now I have a bunch of sliders on a gui that are labeled ‘Slider’…

Let me know if I need to upload my .toe - I’d rather not as it’s A MESS but if it’s necessary…

And thanks!

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Since most of TUIK uses clones, you need to edit the TUIK gadgets from the define table inside them. Otherwise each time you reload, the clone will reload from its master and wipe your changes. The other option is to make any node you edit clone immune by turning on the immune flag.

You can read more about the topic here:
derivative.ca/wiki088/index.php?title=Clone
derivative.ca/wiki088/index.php?title=Immune

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Fantastic! Thank you Ben for the additional material as well.

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What Ben said.

If it’s any consolation, I had the exact same problem when I started out, except worse because I like leaving projects running for days at a time. So I had lost a few days works when I ended up restarting my computer.

The way to know when you’re in a cloned network is a red floating tag in the upper-left corner of the network that will say “CLONE”. The operators in the network will also have a duller color, compared to regular nodes and nodes that are marked as “clone immune” (the lightning bolt flag on the left side of an operator).