Window Layout docks script window incorrectly

cold-ones wrote on 4/14/2010, 11:15 AM
I use Rosebud's excellent "Go To" script every day, I find it incredibly useful. I dock it along with other related windows (like "Edit Details") and save this as a Window Layout. However, this Window Layout does not seem to store the docking information correctly, either not displaying "Go To" at all or sometimes placing it in a completely different docking spot (usually behind the VU meter, for some reason). The Layout correctly recalls Excalibur's docking position, but not "Go To". Any advice?

(Not sure if it's germane, but I'm using 2 monitors for a total of four docking positions across the top of Vegas... I'm trying to place "Go To" in the fourth docking spot.)

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/16/2010, 3:03 AM
> The Layout correctly recalls Excalibur's docking position, but not "Go To". Any advice?

The programmer who writes the extensions has control over the docking properties. Rosebud would need to fix this.

~jr
Rosebud wrote on 4/16/2010, 7:57 AM
Sorry, I can’t repro this behaviour and never had any report about that.
cold-ones wrote on 4/17/2010, 10:43 AM
Wow, thanks for the quick reply!

Rosebud, Go To is really excellent, an absolutely vital tool to organize an edit! I don't mean to complain, I'm just frustrated when I have to re-display it or re-dock it all the time.

I'm using Vegas 9.0d (but this has occurred as long as I can recall). I've just done several trials here, this is what I see:

I set up 4 docks along the bottom of Vegas: Mixer, Goto, Project Media, and Edit Details. (There are no tabs within each dock). I save this as a Window Layout, exit Vegas. When I re-enter Vegas, I only have 3 docks. Go To has become a tab within the Mixer dock, while the other 2 docks display correctly.

If I set Go To as a tab within dockable window 2 or 3 and create a Window Layout, when I re-enter Vegas Go To is changed to a tab behind my docking window 1.

If I set Go To as the first tab in a dock and save a Window Layout, when I re-enter Vegas Go To is the last tab in the dock.

(I often have 2 iterations of Vegas running while editing, and I know that the last iteration closed has some effect on the next iteration opened. I did the test above with only 1 iteration running.)

Hope this helps---thanks again for all your work!
Rosebud wrote on 4/17/2010, 6:07 PM
Ok, I see what you mean.
However, I get strictly same result with all Custom Command (as Excalibur, Production Assistant, etc…)
It seems Vegas can remember if a Custom Command is open or not, but it does not remember its position.
Maybe some script Guru like jetdv ot JohnnyRoy can confirm this ?

Gilles
jetdv wrote on 4/18/2010, 11:45 AM
When you close Vegas and reopen Vegas, I see all standard tabs listed first and all custom commands listed last. For example, if Excalibur is my left-most tab when I close Vegas, upon opening Vegas it will be behind (i.e. to the right of) all the standard tabs.
cold-ones wrote on 4/19/2010, 7:33 AM
Yes, I guess it's true, I never thought of it that way. Excalibur & Go To are the only custom commands that I save in Window Layouts, for instance, and I have tried without success to display them in their own docking windows so they're readily available. Vegas will always (upon reopen) force these "stand-alone" custom commands into the last tab of the previous docking window. It's a shame, because your cc's are incredibly useful & ones that I rely on from minute to minute. I guess it's Sony's world & we're only living in it ; )