robert_e_bone
What is Duckbar?
 
Bob Bone
 

It's add-on for Sonar with countless of features including floating toolbar and insane interface tweaking capabilities, automatic picture cache cleaner, Duckbar Protection to make Sonar restore points and much more. It even has a programming language called 'Kvak' [quack] which is my attempt to make an ultimate replacement for CAL language to control Sonar & Duckbar.
It has Track President which include batch freeze and batch unfreeze commands to freeze/unfreeze multiple tracks at once. In Track President you can also create list of track names to clipboard.
 
Of course there is full featured and easy to use Sonar Utilities Menu editor.
"Insane tweaking" means for example possibility to tweak Skylight interface graphics and any color imaginable.  There's much more and now you can make your own features by programming loosely C based Kvak language. :-)
 

Wow - thanks.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks Panup!

More features:
 
If Sonar crashes, Duckbar can kill orphaned Bitbridge processes.
Duckbar can tweak old 32 bit VST plug-ins so that they're not on the top of other windows.
Duckbar has built in Tap Tempo and Delay Time Calculator.
Duckbar can save, load and clear Sonar's Recent files.
Duckbar can show/hide pre X1 style status bar in Sonar.
Duckbar can show/hide pre X1 style Transport Bar.
Duckbar can hide/show MultiDock and Track View menubar (useful in laptops where screen estate is valuable).
Duckbar can expand Browser tree lists.
Duckbar warns you if Picture Cache is getting full.
 

panup

declan
Does this run on 8.1?  I installed it and the program tries to open but it doesn't.  Any ideas?

I don't know. I can test it in Windows 7 only.  See if program had made any entries to log.txt file in the installation folder.

It did:
 
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
 
Thanks for any help.

declan

panup

declan
Does this run on 8.1?  I installed it and the program tries to open but it doesn't.  Any ideas?

I don't know. I can test it in Windows 7 only.  See if program had made any entries to log.txt file in the installation folder.

It did:
 
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
 
Thanks for any help.

Run Duckbar from command line in debug mode:
 
1. Open command line (start menu / type "cmd")
2. Go to Duckbar installation folder (cd \program files\sonar mods\duckbar)
3. "Duckbar -debug" launches program in debug mode and it may write additional data to log file.
 
Report me if you get any new log entries, it will help me find cause of the issue.
 

panup

declan

panup

declan
Does this run on 8.1?  I installed it and the program tries to open but it doesn't.  Any ideas?

I don't know. I can test it in Windows 7 only.  See if program had made any entries to log.txt file in the installation folder.

It did:
 
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 2:41:54 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #0 SONAR X3d Producer 64 bit
2/13/2014 3:00:34 PM: Found SONAR Installation #1 SONAR X2a Producer 64 bit build 351
 
Thanks for any help.

Run Duckbar from command line in debug mode:
 
1. Open command line (start menu / type "cmd")
2. Go to Duckbar installation folder (cd \program files\sonar mods\duckbar)
3. "Duckbar -debug" launches program in debug mode and it may write additional data to log file.
 
Report me if you get any new log entries, it will help me find cause of the issue.
 

I got an error message that had all the stuff that was already in the text file and then:
 
"Error occurred while trying to write entry to log file 'log.txt'.  Windows reported: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Sonar Mods\Duckbar\log text' is denied."

Awesome!!!! Thanks.
 
Rocky

Thanks Panu. Excellent as usual.

Really great job man, you are the real deal.