Some Very Bad Stuff

[human fly]

hope you like the topic title.

i think atom is probably aware of this. i think it needs some
priority fixes, as it is the main current downfall of Ctrlr.

getting towards the end stages of a panel, you can REALLY SCREW
THINGS UP BADLY doing something you thought was perfectly ok:

groups or tabs can jump into other groups and tabs and ‘disappear’,
even after being saved successfully in the position you want them in.
you save, close the panel, re-open it, and you main UITabs has
*disappeared* – !!?!! aaargh??? – (or another group)

ok, it isn’t that bad, and panicking is the worse thing to do.
your Group, or UITabs has ‘jumped’ into a neighbouring Group
or Tabs, because there’s an overlap, or even just because they
are too close. in my case here, the transparent part of the
UITabs was overlapping the bottom of a Group above it.

On re-opening Ctrlr, my Group had disappeared.
Before, that would have freaked me out, but i know now that it’s
jumped somewhere, so i open Modulator List, find the Group, and
‘make selected visible on canvas’, close Modulator List, and go
back to the Panel, are there is my Group, sitting inside the UITabs,
*covering another Group*(densely populated by modulators i don’t
want to screw up).
(you can see in the Modulator List that it has jumped, because it
now belongs to the wrong Group or UITabs)

so i have to find an edge of the ‘jumped’ Group, rightclick it,
and un’lock’ it so it can be moved. for safety, i move it to an
empty area of the workspace. then i move it back to where it is
supposed to be. if i’m lucky, it doesn’t jump back into the
group/tabs i’ve just moved it from. otherwise i have to start
again, and resize it so it doesn’t happen again. now i have to
find a solution to avoid these 2 group/tabs overlapping. that
is the only way to resolve it. – then lock, save, etc. and i
should be able to re-open it successfully and carry on working.

that is a ‘best case scenario’: quite often, you have to resize
things to get hold of them, and it’s a bit of a nightmare.
maybe i’ve structured my panel with too many groups, but i like
groups, because i can move all the objects/modulators together,
and i’ve had to repeat groups, as well, by copying them, where
the hardware has multiples of the same thing.

right now, though, i’m looking at a new problem that i have NO
idea bhow to resolve yet: the Selected Tab header has just
vanished.(why?!!! i’ll have to sort that out…)

so, i would call these ‘instabilities’. stuff that a new, or
regular/experienced user does not need to deal with, especially
in closing stages of a project where everything is neatly numbered
and attributed. atom, if you can prioritize this, i think it’s good
for Ctrlr 😉

• This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by human fly.

[human fly]

right, do you know what that was? the Front Tab Text, disappearing?
i found it: for some unknown reason (unlikely to be a bad click, but
you never know), the ‘width’ setting of the Tab Text had gone to ‘0’,
instead of ‘1’. glad i spotted that quickly. sorted.

other comments about jumping groups and tabs remains.

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