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[Feature request] Quick access to studios


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It's not all that important but I would love if I could hide or enable studios by fx right clicking a studio tab and selecting from there. Doing the same through the menu system several times in a row several times a day is a little annoying.

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Just to make sure everyone knows, if there are particular studio panels you need to show/hide frequently, you can assign shortcut keys to them via Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts. Look under Miscellaneous, and scroll down to Toggle...

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On 12/13/2019 at 1:33 PM, Mark Ingram said:

You can also use the middle mouse button to hide a studio panel (though appreciate there's no quick way to get it back...).

Thanks for the tip (that only works when docked but then you have the x of course).

Enabling studios is what I need the most.

In Publisher I utilize the different studios on and off in an almost random pattern during either early construction work or finalizing. Finding and enabling them in the program menu is not all that fun.

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48 minutes ago, Jowday said:

In Publisher I utilize the different studios on and off in an almost random pattern during either early construction work or finalizing. Finding and enabling them in the program menu is not all that fun.

Perhaps collapsing them rather than hiding them would be beneficial? I think that a double-click on a panel name on the tab will collapse everything in that part of the studio (from memory, as I'm not near the computer right now).

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51 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Perhaps collapsing them rather than hiding them would be beneficial? I think that a double-click on a panel name on the tab will collapse everything in that part of the studio (from memory, as I'm not near the computer right now).

True that but even collapsed it takes some time to locate them and show them. I do try to group and hide them in a meaningful way. Right clicking a studio title and enabling/hiding studios  quickly would just make it all easier - the menu would also serve as a quick overview.

A scenario where it really hurts is when you want to activate many.

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10 minutes ago, Jowday said:

Right clicking a studio title and enabling/hiding studios  quickly would just make it all easier

Sorry, but I don't think I understand that. Collapsing a set of panels gives you their titles. Then double-clicking restores them all.

How is right-clicking on the title better than double-clicking it? And, where is the title going to be visible for right-clicking if the panel is totally hidden rather than collapsed?

Guess I'm just not understanding your vision for this. Sorry.

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6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Sorry, but I don't think I understand that. Collapsing a set of panels gives you their titles. Then double-clicking restores them all.

How is right-clicking on the title better than double-clicking it? And, where is the title going to be visible for right-clicking if the panel is totally hidden rather than collapsed?

Guess I'm just not understanding your vision for this. Sorry.

I want access to this particular menu by fx right clicking a studio:

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It is simply too far away in the program menu :)

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