In a song with lots of tracks, closing a track folder jerks the view back to track 1 at the top.
 
 If I have a track folder let's say on track #30 containing several tracks. And if I have the tracks scrolled down so where track 25 is at the top of the trackview.
 
If I open the track folder revealing all the tracks and then close it, all of a sudden the view changes, just like I hit the HOME key. Now track 1 is at the top instead of track 25 and I've lost my place, only to have to scroll back down so track 25 is at the top.
 
I can't imagine that this is a feature, who would want this? I'd call it a bug and it's been around for a very long time and was not in earlier versions of Sonar like 8.5. I'm not sure if this was in X3 or the 1st version of Platinum.
 
Is there a workaround? If I hit U to return to the previous view, that doesn't work. Could there be an INI file change to fix this?
 
Is anyone else bugged by this erratic behavior?

Actually someone else was complaining about this but for the life of me, I can't reproduce it. I tried with auto-zoom on and off, and did as you said where Track 30 was a track folder with lots of tracks and scrolled down so track 25 was just visible at the top. But if I opened and closed the track folder, it stayed put and so did the view. I also tried making the track height high and a bunch of other things, like having the console view take up half the screen...no dice. I also tried adding more tracks below the track folder and more above. Same thing. I don't if I have some magic preference set or what.
 
Maybe you could post a screen shot of the overall layout?

I have had this happen quite often. It seems in my case it may be related to importing locked/old screensets from previous versions of Sonar. Do you have locked or imported screensets in the project the problem shows up in Gerry?
 
I am yet to pin down a way to consistently reporoduce the issue.

Craig thanks for responding. It's encouraging to know that you're not experiencing this. I feel now we can get to the bottom of it.
 
Here's 3 screen shots. #1 is with track 1 at the top, #2 is scrolling down to see the track folders closed, #3 is the track folder: track 19 opened by me clicking on the + to the left of the track folder. When I click on the - to close the track folder it jerks back to #1 screen shot.
 
Here's my normal template, so you can see if it does the same for you.
https://onedrive.live.com/?id=C256E2DAE26B22A5!105&cid=C256E2DAE26B22A5
 

tenfoot
I have had this happen quite often. It seems in my case it may be related to  or importing locked/old screensets from previous versions of Sonar. Do you have locked or imported screensets in the project the problem shows up in Gerry?
 
I am yet to pin down a way to consistently reporoduce the issue.

 
I never use screensets, because I kept accidently hitting hot keys and changing the screen. So I have all the screen sets duplicated to the 1st screen of my template that I uploaded for you to check out too. I redid my template from scratch around last August. You may be onto the cause
 
thanks,

Let's hope so - it can be a bit frustrating when it happens! One other question; does it happen consistently from when you commence a project? It seems to happen later in projects for me and was wondering if it may be a combination of older screensets/templates and archiving tracks.

tenfoot
Let's hope so - it can be a bit frustrating when it happens! One other question; does it happen consistently from when you commence a project? It seems to happen later in projects for me and was wondering if it may be a combination of older screensets/templates and archiving tracks.

It happens every single time for me, since I only have one template I use.

Ah - good to know. Does it happen if you create a project from scratch and just create multiple tracks and folders? I still suspect a legacy issue from the template.

tenfoot
Ah - good to know. Does it happen if you create a project from scratch and just create multiple tracks and folders? I still suspect a legacy issue from the template.

My template has 84 tracks, so I always use the same template and just delete tracks I don't need. I remember a song that had 3 different real drummer's performances. Each performance was about 14 audio tracks. And each performance was in a separate track folder.
 
The folders were near the bottom of the track list, so it drove me crazy when the view kept changing back to track 1. All those audio tracks were not in my template, I manually added them to track folders.

gmp

tenfoot
Let's hope so - it can be a bit frustrating when it happens! One other question; does it happen consistently from when you commence a project? It seems to happen later in projects for me and was wondering if it may be a combination of older screensets/templates and archiving tracks.

It happens every single time for me, since I only have one template I use.

that could be the problem. try creating a new template.
I know I have had small issues with older templates, even newer templates ive created.
as a test, try a new/different template.