Patching, unlocking, resizing, locking, presenting...
So...
I realized that every time I wanted to go from editing to using a patch I always had to do three things:
1. Switch from patching to presentation mode.
2. Make the window smaller because there's a lot less stuff visible in presentation mode.
3. Lock the patch.
And then when I wanted to switch back I had do it all in reverse
1. Switch from presentation to patching
2. Make the window bigger because now there's a lot more stuff.
3. Unlock the patch.
It may not seem like that big a deal, but when you have to do it over and over and over...
So I made a simple little abstraction that does all three things at once.
Put it in the upper lefthand corner of your patcher window. Then:
A. Resize your window for patching, click on the Patch button to register.
B. Resize your window for presentation, click on the Present button to register.
C. Now you can toggle everything with a single click.
(Then, whenever you want to change the window size for either patching or presentation, just click the approprate button again).
I've found this to be a big timesaver - I thought others might as well.
wow that sounds awesome. those fiddly things add up to a long amount of time and can mess with your focus.
well done for finding a way to do it
Nice! Thanks for that.
Not a bad idea at all! I find myself not using presentation mode much exactly because of this. And when i do, it annoys me to no end, so i usually end up using without presentation mode.
Good stuff. I'll sometimes create 2 views of the same window and leave one in presentation mode. Then it's easy to toggle between them. But your solution would definitely be handy in a "fullscreen" situation or when you have many other windows open.