Be able to make a Blend Modes control WITH names with LUA scripting?

Sorry if this may be a silly and mistaken idea, as I do not know about scripting or how FF handles the showing of names on the Settings panel

It has been already 10 years, and there is still no way to show the names of the blend modes in the settings control, and it can only be shown correctly each selected blend mode name inside the remapper inside the filter.

So as there has not been anyone that have built any possible solution for this using FF components (In a simple and easy way), I wonder if it could be possible to show the names that appear in the remapper in the settings controls of the filter using LUA scripting

Thanks for any possible help and sorry again if this is a bad and wrong idea

I made for FF 4.0 this filter snippet for is not easy to setup and it clutters the settings controls

Blend Modes WITH names

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Skybase wrote :This isn't doable. There's no dynamic way to control text in the settings tab.

Is this inherently impossible, or just not possible with the current FF application?
I mean, would the architecture of FF, with an adaption by the makers, be able to comply to the request of SpaceRay?
I would very much welcome it.

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Skybase wrote: But why do that when we rather have practical things like drop down menus?

I totally agree with you and it really true that the best way would be surely to have drop down menu on the settings and would be the best way to do it but...

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Skybase wrote: I generally think this is better implemented through drop down menus instead.

...I started this thread because Vladimir has already put that it was very difficult or not possible to make drop down menu in FF as it seems is very difficult and hard with the current way it is programmed

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Vladimir Golovin wrote in 2006 already 14 years ago!!: Dropdown (a.k.a List Control) was put on indefinite hold because it was going to take too long to implement (it requires a serious redesign of Filter Forge's infrastructure for control components).

Dropdown list

SO as said, I agree with you and agree also that it would be the best way but it has not been possible in 14 YEARS, so I do not think they will do it this way and this is why I suggested this possible alternative

IF WITH LUA IS NOT POSSIBLE

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SpaceRay wrote: If the dropdown is the problem, is not really needed and surely there could be other possible alternative way, for example just use a text slot as it happens already in the remapper inside the filter where it is shown the name of the selected blend mode, so it would appear the name in the settings control instead of a number