Pane pain.

farss wrote on 6/2/2009, 8:28 PM

I'm now using more panes than ever in V9, partially because I have the screen real estate on my 24" monitor. I do like the new look of Vegas although more than once I've closed it down thinking I'd opened the wrong NLE.
What I find rather confusing now is knowing which is the active pane. That other NLE does address this issue with an accent around the active pane. I'm feeling this would be a very worthwhile enhancement to the Vegas GUI. I'm curious to hear what others think before it goes into the feature request box.

Bob.

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Xander wrote on 6/2/2009, 9:03 PM

I have definitely needed the yellow highlight in AE to work out where I was. Don't have Vegas 9 yet, but I have traditionally not run into issues of getting Vegas to do stuff wherever the cursor was at the time.

This may be because some functions in programs like AE are dependent on your focus, but not so much in Vegas - it kinda knows what you are intending to do.

Maybe I am not using panes to the extent you are in Vegas (I have a 24" too).

erikd wrote on 6/2/2009, 9:52 PM

"That other NLE does address this issue with an accent around the active pane. "

This issue can be handled through Windows XP. I use my own customized theme setting and I prefer it over the new darker look of V9. My look is more like the look of the Combustion/Flint/Flame looks from Autodesk. But if you go into the advanced settings of your xp theme one of the options is for border width and color of the active window. Change this as desired and you have your problem solved. This only works though when you "tear" the individual components out into their own separate windows. I hope that is what you were referring to since when the components are docked you can tell what is active by the tab on top.

Erik

rmack350 wrote on 6/2/2009, 10:03 PM

There's nothing wrong with more and clearer feedback. Hard to argue with that.

Rob Mack

farss wrote on 6/2/2009, 10:42 PM

Thanks for the idea but unfortunately not really helping as I have the panes docked. Yes I can tell which tab is active in the pane easy enough but not which pane is active. I can also tell which window is active. I don't think Windoz is 'pane aware' either, I can find nothing in the advanced setup of themes related to panes.

Example of my problem.
I have an audio FX open in a docked pane. I'm adjusting that then I hit Space to play. Doesn't work because the T/L doesn't have focus. I click in the T/L to get focus there except the prior press of Space has changed a tick box in the FX.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 6/3/2009, 1:02 AM

Doesn't work because the T/L doesn't have focus. I click in the T/L to get focus there except the prior press of Space has changed a tick box in the FX. Press Alt+0 (Focus to Timeline) prior to Spacebar?

Grazie

erikd wrote on 6/3/2009, 4:56 AM

"I have an audio FX open in a docked pane. I'm adjusting that then I hit Space to play. Doesn't work because the T/L doesn't have focus."

Bob, When I have FX or other docked panes available to me, I also have my layout so that a little bit of the timeline can be seen also. If you can see any part of your cursor you can know if it has "focus" or not because it blinks white/black when it has focus but is solid black only if it doesn't have focus.

Just trying to help a little.

Erik

farss wrote on 6/3/2009, 8:04 AM

"Just trying to help a little."

And much appreciated, both your input and Grazie's. I'm still left feeling that a in ya' face visual cue would be beneficial, just when the juices do get flowing remembering is the thing. Don't know about anyone else but anything that causes one to stumble I find blocks the flow of the juices. Probably all would be well if all I did was edit all day.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 6/3/2009, 1:05 PM

Bob, let them juices run all day!

Grazie

erikd wrote on 6/3/2009, 1:17 PM

"Don't know about anyone else but anything that causes one to stumble I find blocks the flow of the juices."

Yeh, I agree and can relate to that. Just when you think your startin' to heat up and then the button you hit doesn't do what you expected. That's a Debbie Downer moment.