Auto Hide Toolbar?
I'm creating a Full Screen standalone app in Max 8. It all works great, except that the Toolbar always appears? I don't have the luxury of typing CMD+8 every time to make it go away. Is there a call I can make to the Message object that will hide the Toolbar? Something like "max hide toolbar", like what you can do with the cursor? Or have some type of hidden control in the Inspector or Preferences? Please help me make this Toolbar go away!
Well I'm answering my own post.
Open the Patcher window that goes Fullscreen, and dig deep into its Inspector, to the View section. There's a toggle to close the Toolbar on Open.
Thanks David. I needed to do some digging around, so will post here to help me later when I try this again. Perhaps it also helps someone else...
On MS Windows at least (maybe someone can confirm how to get there with MacOS?), the trick is to navigate to the "View" menu in the patch that you want to display without toolbars, then select "Inspector Window" shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+i (note that this is not the "Inspector" panel: CTRL+i)
Scolling down the "Inspector Window" options , in its "View" section, is the option that we need: "Show Toolbar on Open": deselect this one and save to stop the toolbars appearing at all (hidden, auto-hiding or otherwise).
Note that you can still press CTRL+8 to display the toolbars, so there is still no way to disable them completely, which is a real pain. Any further help on how to remove the toolbars completely from showing up in Max 8 patches would be gratefully received.
you can send attributes to thispatcher
Thanks SourceAudio - good to know!
after reading many posts, and many years later this is still not dynamic - ( command 8?)
still must restart the patch?
command-8 is not even identical with patcherwindow inspector/thispatcher, as it narrows down the patcher window size.
to make it worse, setting the window style to panel (title/notitle) remains to show the toolbars - otherwise this would be an elegant solution how to re-implement it into max (and make existing notitle windows look as in ancient max versions. right now it looks identical to palette style windows.)
a very silly workaround could be to set toolbarvisible, then save the patcher in itself (using thispatcher), then open a new copy of it from within it, then dispose the first instance.
while this basically can be done programmatically, it will take a moment.