fl-studio-api-stubs 23.0.0

Module and function definitions and documentation for the FL Studio Python API

FL Studio Python API Stubs

This project contains function definitions to provide intellisense while working on scripts for FL Studio's Python API, as well as a partially-complete model of FL Studio, which allows for scripts to be tested outside of FL Studio.

Online Reference

The documentation is also available as an online reference if Image-Line's own documentation isn't up to scratch.

Installation

To avoid module conflicts with other Python projects, it is recommended that you install this script in a virtual environment by following these instructions in the official Python documentation.

After activating the environment in your editor, you can install the stub modules by running the command pip install FL-Studio-API-Stubs on Windows or pip3 install FL-Studio-API-Stubs on MacOS or Linux.

Video reference for installation instructions

Testing using the FL Studio API Stubs

This code provides a model of FL Studio which can be used to test basic functionality of projects using the API. The fl_model module can be used for controlling the state of the model. Refer to its documentation for usage instructions.

The Small Print

A couple of notes regarding this repo.

This Documentation isn't Complete

Although the stubs are mostly complete, there are a few functions where I don't fully understand how they work. These functions have a HELP WANTED: label in their documentation. If you happen to know how to use one, I'd love it if you helped out by improving the documentation! I may also have incorrect definitions for some functions. Please create an issue if you find anything incorrect.

Differences to the Official Implementation

A small number of tweaks have been made to these stubs in order to ease code writing. These shouldn't have any functional impact on the behavior of the API compared to the implied behavior from the stubs, but should help clarify some properties of certain functions.

• Functions where parameters or returns are boolean by nature are listed as using a bool type, even though the implementation uses the integers 0 and 1. This change should help to describe the context in which the functions should be called when writing scripts, which in a language like Python is far more important than the actual implementation of the functions.