Reply To: Preview 2.36: Extended UI and mixer resizing.

Wow, it’s already out… let me bump these anyway, for future reference. 😉

– It’s good that you restored the dimmed so/in labels. However, they disappear awfully early during zooming. I think that even at the smallest strip size, at least labels like “So” and “In” would make them more discernable and an easier target.

– By the way, something that’s always irked me is that automatic solo is disabled when you enable normal solo mode on top of it… the two should be unrelated, in my opinion. Muting should of course mute the track, but restore automatic solo again afterwards. Anyone disagree?

– I think the control type and gain/pan fader options are quite confusing, and some of them possibly obsolete. Examples: Selecting “disable” for the faders doesn’t really disable them, but shows them inside the chain panel instead. For gain/pan controls, “show value on knob” can’t be properly used anymore with smaller strips.

– If you choose “control type: dial”, the pan dials are a little too big for the smallest possible strips.

– Due to the rounded corners, track headers look a little weird when using horizontal meters or no meters at all.

– I think that the mixer zoom setting should be saved with each arrangement instead of the editor profile. I’d actually say the same goes for the minimize audio/MIDI/parameter tracks options.
Zoom settings for all editors except arrangement are also stored per profile – it makes more sense there, but not so much with the mixer, in my opinion.

– A first quick test shows that the GUI still ‘freezes’ for about half a second when I click (and hold) a window title bar but don’t move the window. Also, when I click and move a floating window (that did not already have key focus), there is always a little ‘jump’ when I start the move. It’s always been like this, unlike in other hosts, and isn’t a problem… it might be related, though. This also causes the rest of the GUI to hickup.

– With the round corners gone on selector buttons, it has become even harder to see the line when you’re dragging effects with some color schemes. It seems the color of the line changes automatically depending on the panel background color…

Comparison (my theme, Nightfall, Paper):

Maybe it could be drawn on top of selectors?

– (Not related to 2.36) Likewise, the color of the event resize overlay box thing (you know what I mean) is also chosen depending on some background color, making it very hard to see sometimes. The move and time-stretch overlays are always black, it seems, which works much better for me.

– Bug: (not related to 2.36) With the select tool, left-clicking shortly after selecting a menu option that closes the right-click menu results in an event being added. Looks like Podium sees it as the second click of a double-click for some reason. This happens sometimes because I often just click somewhere to deselect events.