Option to hide helper in View menu + Full screen brush lag bug

[Matthew Dickerson]

Please add the option to hide the Helper in the view menu. every millimetre of screen space is very valuable as a digital painter working on a display tablet, especially vertical space.  I know i can go full screen with fn + F on Mac but this is causing lagging with the brushes. - some unusual bug as it works fine without lag when using 'full-screen tile', setting it to left, then closing whatever i've assigned to the right - this puts it in fullscreen mode without any brush lag, but fn + f will cause lag.

[MikeTO]

Since there isn't a way to do this, you could drag the window down so that the status bar area is hidden and then scale the top of the app window up to the top of the screen. This would give you every pixel of space and you wouldn't see the status bar.

The downside is there is no easy way to toggle its visibility again without jumping through the same hoops.

[Matthew Dickerson]

3 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Since there isn't a way to do this, you could drag the window down so that the status bar area is hidden and then scale the top of the app window up to the top of the screen. This would give you every pixel of space and you wouldn't see the status bar.

The downside is there is no easy way to toggle its visibility again without jumping through the same hoops.

Hi Mark, I did find a work around - if you hide tools from the view menu and then press tab it will hide the helper, would be great if there was an option though and an option to have the sliders hide as well.

 

 

[once]

On 11/15/2024 at 8:16 AM, Matthew Dickerson said:

Hi Mark, I did find a work around - if you hide tools from the view menu and then press tab it will hide the helper, would be great if there was an option though and an option to have the sliders hide as well.

 

 

interesting workaround. and much more practical than the one i came across - opening a file fresh & NOT using the tab key. it does seem like an oversight that it works in circumstances like these, but cannot be toggled manually.

i know you said in your first post that it makes brushes laggy so is not a viable option, but does going fullscreen with fn + F work for you to get rid of the helper? it doesnt for me (i work in fullscreen most of the time), i am on os 15.1.1.

[Oufti]

On 11/15/2024 at 4:24 AM, MikeTO said:

The downside is there is no easy way to toggle its visibility again without jumping through the same hoops.

You can just double-click on the windows title bar (above or between the buttons icons). That will resize your window exactly to the size of your display.

[Matthew Dickerson]

On 12/24/2024 at 11:18 PM, once said:

interesting workaround. and much more practical than the one i came across - opening a file fresh & NOT using the tab key. it does seem like an oversight that it works in circumstances like these, but cannot be toggled manually.

i know you said in your first post that it makes brushes laggy so is not a viable option, but does going fullscreen with fn + F work for you to get rid of the helper? it doesnt for me (i work in fullscreen most of the time), i am on os 15.1.1.

if I hide the tools first it'll hide the helper when going full screen, i also found out i can hide the menu bar via system settings > control centre > automatically hide menu bar > always .. combined with the hide tools trick makes it the same as going fullscreen without the brush lag bug - still has the sliders though but maybe in a future update they'll add autohide sliders feature,

[Matthew Dickerson]

 i've set 'hide tools' as a shortcut for me,

[once]

31 minutes ago, Matthew Dickerson said:

 i've set 'hide tools' as a shortcut for me,

thank you, but i think i am missing something. how did you create a (keyboard?-) shortcut for this? i know you can manually customize shortcuts in the preferences, but i cannot find the command for this. i always have to manually toggle this via view > hide tools

[Matthew Dickerson]

10 minutes ago, once said:

thank you, but i think i am missing something. how did you create a (keyboard?-) shortcut for this? i know you can manually customize shortcuts in the preferences, but i cannot find the command for this. i always have to manually toggle this via view > hide tools

[once]

brilliant! many thanks!