Topic: Gui issue: names on audioparts in tracklist….

…are hiding behind the waveform drawing

So what you’re saying is, that you’d like the waveform to hide behind the text? 😛

The phantom icon is generally very “difficult” noticable. Perhaps the Phantomparts could have a more general/global difference then unique parts.

I’m open to suggestions. Would a more distinct coloring of the phantom icon (the plus icon appearing after the sequence name) do the trick? Or should the entire sequence event background be a different color shade?

😥 you’re making fun of me

Not much, you know I take everything you say seriously 😉

I think, if it’s possible, that there could be a small reserved space for the Ghost Icon and name

Yes, simply writing the name on top of the waveform would probably not be enough. I could experiment with painting a translucent background for the text and phantom icon, on top of the waveform.

but that it stays alwas at the beginning of an even/part >>> so if you zoom-in you still see it at the beginning of the visible event.

I had implemented it this way once. I ditched it, because it was very irritating when e.g. you scrolled the time axis and all the sequence names would slide to try to stay inside the viewed area.

Aslo in the track info left of the trackheader you could place an icon for all eventnames which are ghosted.

Good idea.

Another thing that I wanted to mention for a long time is that the color assigned to a track completely becomes overwritten/obscured when you highlight a mixer strip .. also from the parent tracks the color disappears.
I think that there still could be an opacity so that you see the color or just a reserved space that keeps colored.

I tried it with the opacity. It got very confusing because of all the different color combinations that were the result. You could not clearly see see if it was in the selected branch or just another color. I may experiment with another way of highlighting the parents of a selected track.

And while we’re at it here’s another luxury issue
I wondered why in the pianoroll editor there is no posibility to use a background image file or color control. (like the trackregion background)
I use darker colors for podiums interface but the colors I use for the general interface are not so good in the pianoroll .

Luxury issue indeed. It’s good to know there is plenty for me to do in 2006 as well 😉
Would options in the project dialog for using the tracks bitmap for the other editors be a solution? Or would you need different colors for the editors. Save your color setup and email it to me, along with your track background image, and I’ll see if I can implement this easily.