GlennP 
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Active Track” Colour
Can’t change “Active Track” Colour...
Preferences > Customisation > Colours > Track View Strip > Active Track > Apply > OK > restart application.
But colour remains “grey”. Even tried Exporting and Importing from X2, X1 and 8.5.3 to no avail.
This was happening in X1 and I used SonarMods “TTSRES90.dll” to fix it, but I find it hard to believe cake hasn't fixed this bug, so I wonder, have I mist something here… again?
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 03:12:08
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Perhaps its a LOCKED COLOR (You can't change it) that so many other color are in SONAR X2 nowdays?
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 03:27:48
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It's not a bug it's an inactive feature.
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 04:34:10
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 04:53:44
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 Not yet mate, hopefully never.........
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GlennP
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 05:52:43
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Inactive feature… Bristol_Jonesey, you win the “Best Euphemism” of the year award.
But seriously why does cake lead us down the garden path giving us the option to change a setting that is set in stone? Jeez! How frustrating is that.
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 06:09:01
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When Cake made all of the colour options "inactive"  , they should have removed the feature totally from Sonar, just to avoid confusion. I suspect they're leaving it there so that future versions (X3?) can be opened up fully for custom colour editing, though why they didn't simply remove the menu entry seems like a missed opportunity
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jbraner
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 06:52:54
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When Cake made all of the colour options "inactive" , they should have removed the feature totally from Sonar, just to avoid confusion. A few of the options still work - ie the text color for different types of tracks. They really should get rid of all the "inactive" settings that don't do anything though. Now in X2 - rather than having clip color settings for MIDI tracks and for audio tracks - they just have them for "tracks" (and they apply to MIDI and audio tracks). This can get really confusing. If you can't change the colors - don't give us a "setting" to change!  Glenn - some of the settings *do* actually change colors though - so it's worth playing around...
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GlennP
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 07:26:02
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@ jbraner Yes my friend, but it’s a bit hit and miss ie the text colours I’ve set mine to…
Folder text = yellow
MIDI track text = green
Audio text = crimson
Soft Synth = orange
Bus text = Skyblue
At a glance you have a better understanding at what you are looking at. I find this approach especially good when returning to an older project
You state... They really should get rid of all the "inactive" settings that don't do anything though.
I disagree with you on this one, they should reactivate. Updates are all about giving us more features not taking away the ones we like and become reliant on
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 07:33:31
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Oh - I agree completely! What I meant was, they should get rid of the settings while they do nothing - but they certainly should fix the color customisation!
Panup had proven that this can be done - I just feel a little uncomfortable with the "unsupported" status of his mods ;-)
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 07:42:26
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Yes mate, that's why I haven't looked on the sonarmods forum for a solution.
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 18:16:22
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Fingers crossed this will be fixed in X3 or better still X2 build 309, I wont be holding my breath
Thank you GlennP
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/16 19:47:21
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Duckbar cab now adjust SONAR X1 and X2 Skylight interface hue, contrast, saturation, lightness and gamma values but like said, it's unofficial. I did not have time to wait for the official customization from Cakewalk but that's my problem. :)
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/17 07:46:56
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More power to you panup! I just can't be bothered remembering to save a backup copy of the EXE file or dll - that's being edited.
It just adds one more variable when something's not working - and there are already way too many variables...
Having said that - I am tempted to try duckbar one of these days...
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/17 13:10:36
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Bristol_Jonesey
When Cake made all of the colour options "inactive" , they should have removed the feature totally from Sonar, just to avoid confusion.
I suspect they're leaving it there so that future versions (X3?) can be opened up fully for custom colour editing, though why they didn't simply remove the menu entry seems like a missed opportunity
What could be more confusing? How about leaving changeable colors in the registry but not listing them in the Preferences so you don't know you can change them. But wait, there's even more. And I address that in a new post here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2694395 Steve
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panup
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/10/17 19:26:26
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> I just can't be bothered remembering to save a backup copy of the EXE file or dll - that's being edited.
I'm designing a "Total Recall" feature in Duckbar which is in short "one click save/restore" SONAR settings. It'll include registry, EXE, DLL, *.ini files etc... Coming soon. :-)
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Re:Active Track” Colour
2012/11/25 20:16:17
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"Active Track" is the one and only locked down color that really bugs me. They made it gray!? And inactive tracks are...a kinda slightly darker gray!? (bad design choice, in my opinion)
Active Track should be highly contrasted from inactive tracks. Without a clear, bold visual I have to verify every time that I'm not working in the ProChannel for the wrong track. I pleaded this to Cakewalk, but I don't think it made it on their radar.
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