12.8 Track View Screen Sets
Screen Sets enable you to save several different views of your project, so that you can easily select and recall them when editing or arranging.
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Screen Sets enable you to save several different views of your project, so that you can easily select and recall them when editing or arranging. There are two types of Screen Set – Track Views and Windows. Track Views are created and saved on a per project basis – the screen set data is stored in the project's .RPP file and can be recalled only when you are working with that project file. Using track view screen sets can be especially useful when you are editing or in some other way working closely with media items. Track view screen sets will include, for example, which tracks are displayed, together with their position, size and layouts. Pinned tracks and virtual spacers will also be respected. Windows screen sets are global and are stored in the Application Data screensets.ini file. They can be recalled from, and applied to, any project file. The procedure for creating track views is:
- Use the View, Screensets/Layouts command (or Ctrl E) to show the Screen Sets window (which is dockable).
- Adjust your track layouts to suit.
- Select a number from the Track views page of the Screen Sets window.
- Click on Save and name the set. You can create up to 10 track view screen sets per project. To recall a view, double click on its name. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to individual screen sets. By default, Shift F4 to Shift F6 are used to save your first three track views, and F4 to F6 are assigned to load each of these first three track views. If you want to modify these, or assign shortcuts to other track views, then you should click on the Edit shortcuts button in the Screensets window. This opens the Action List Editor. For instructions on how to use the Action List Editor, see Chapter 15. There is also an option available to Auto save when switching screen sets. If enabled, this ensures when switching from one screen set to another that any changes made to the layout of the first of these screen sets will be saved. The Edit fields... button can be used to “tweak” this, so that only certain aspects of your changes are automatically saved.