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2016/10/29 19:16:14 (permalink)

[SOLVED] Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV?

Does anyone know how to associate a keyboard shortcut for "Show/Hide Track" in Piano Roll View, for the currently selected track?
 

 
Currently I can only do it with mouse.
 
post edited by rogeriodec - 2016/11/18 08:26:07

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/10/30 04:25:50 (permalink)
    That would be handy, but I guess the shortcut wouldn't know which track you wanted to Show/Hide?

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/10/30 12:11:26 (permalink)
    Yes. I agree the shortcut couldn't know which track but ...

    For PRV that contain multiple tracks (I often have 10, 20, 30 in a PRV)
    Untick the color of the track on the right to hide it
    Hit "V" to invert the selection
    Now you're only seeing one track

    Hit "A" now you're seeing all tracks.

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 12:38:18 (permalink)
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    Yes. I agree the shortcut couldn't know which track but ...

    For PRV that contain multiple tracks (I often have 10, 20, 30 in a PRV)
    Untick the color of the track on the right to hide it
    Hit "V" to invert the selection
    Now you're only seeing one track

    Hit "A" now you're seeing all tracks.




    Yes, I know these shotcuts, (also "H" to hide all tracks) but it's still missing one keyboard shortcut to show/hide the current track.
    I still have to use mouse and it becomes a boring repetitive operation when you have to turn on and off the current track several times using the mouse. 

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 12:53:02 (permalink)
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    Yes. I agree the shortcut couldn't know which track but ...

    For PRV that contain multiple tracks (I often have 10, 20, 30 in a PRV)
    Untick the color of the track on the right to hide it
    Hit "V" to invert the selection
    Now you're only seeing one track

    Hit "A" now you're seeing all tracks.




    Yes, I know these shotcuts, (also "H" to hide all tracks) but it's still missing one keyboard shortcut to show/hide the current track.
    I still have to use mouse and it becomes a boring repetitive operation when you have to turn on and off the current track several times using the mouse. 


    I can understand the requirement to Hide the current track, but to show it?
     
    If it's already hidden, how does SONAR know which one you want to unhide?

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 14:14:29 (permalink)
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    I can understand the requirement to Hide the current track, but to show it?
     
    If it's already hidden, how does SONAR know which one you want to unhide?




    I think I did not express myself properly.
    Just to be clear, we are talking about PRV, right?
    I have for example, 10 tracks open in PRV.
    Let's say I'm trying to edit the midi track 3 (which is the track with the current focus).
    On my keyboard, I have to press "H" to hide all tracks and then I have to click on the "Show / Hide" button (as the image of the post #1).
    It would be easier if I could do everything via keyboard, for example, "H" and then any other custom key to show again only track that has the focus.
    Or better yet, if there was a way to hide all tracks EXCEPT the current track.

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 17:51:45 (permalink)
    Sorry, I missed the bit where you said PRV.
     
    Nothing to see here.
     
    Move along.

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 17:55:50 (permalink)
    nothing here either except using the PRV menu = Pick tracks

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 19:27:05 (permalink)
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    nothing here either except using the PRV menu = Pick tracks


    I did not understand how it can solve this topic?

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/01 20:25:12 (permalink)
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    nothing here either except using the PRV menu = Pick tracks


    I did not understand how it can solve this topic?


    EDIT: Never mind -Good luck
     
     

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/18 08:24:03 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Steve_Karl 2016/11/20 01:27:09
    After some time, I decided to create a script myself, to work around this problem, using Autohotkey.
    It basically looks for the color of the active track within the PRV. Important: the color it looks for is #cfeffa (Sonar default theme); If you use another theme, change the color of the active track within this script.
    And also, for the sake of ergonomics, I remaped the "E" key to perform this function. So this script will intercept this key and it will not have another function inside Sonar.
     

    SetTitleMatchMode RegEx
    #IfWinActive, ahk_exe i)SONAR.*exe
     
    e:: ; Pressing "E" in Piano Roll View, shows only the current track and hide all others
     IfWinNotActive, Piano Roll
     {
     send e
     Return
     }
     ControlGetPos, x, y, w, h, ListBox1
     PixelSearch, Px, Py, %x%, %y%, (x + w), (y + h), 0xcfeffa, , fast RGB
     if ErrorLevel
     {
     MsgBox, Active track not found. Select one track in PRV.
     return 
     }
     Send, h ; hide all tracks on prv
     MouseMove (Px - 38), (Py + 8) ; pos over "show/hide" button
     Click
     MouseMove xx, yy ; recover original mouse position
     Return
     

    post edited by rogeriodec - 2016/12/07 17:28:43

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/18 18:37:59 (permalink)
    That's a clever solution. Well done.

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    Re: Keyboard shorcut to "Show/Hide Track" in PRV? 2016/11/22 19:25:30 (permalink)
    I did a little fix in the script on post #11, which is now updated.

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