Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s
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Hey there i would like to open a request about binding ctrl + s to "save xml" at default.
I think this would make sense, what do you think?
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@Straticah I'm so used to the current key binding that I don't really mind any more, but I believe this request has been made a few times in the past, probably by me as well :)
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@d-healey Yeah I guess the only opponent to that idea is my muscle memory :)
Didn't Greg made a pull request about this at some point in the past?Nevermind, he was the one adding that feature at all: https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/pull/169 -
OK everybody, vote is out: upvote this if you want ctrl+S to save the XML, downvote to leave it like that.
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@Christoph-Hart For posterity I think it would the the right course of action.
Currently I use a StreamDeck macro to save an xml. I created it in the first place because of both the weird shortcut and the two prompts (which I later learned can be disabled in Projucer).
A lot of the stuff I suggest on the forum etc. has to do with experience continuity from other existing established pieces of software and workflows, so I agree. I think the UX department in that regard is HISE's biggest flaw, along with the state of the docs (which is a major compliment in fact). By default the experience should be aligned with similar existing established pieces of software, and options given for each user to tweak things according to their needs.
So why not add it to the shortcuts list? These are project-agnostic, stored in the HISE config file, right? That way everyone's happy. Put the default to whatever gets voted here.
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@aaronventure said in Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s:
which I later learned can be disabled in Projucer
Tell me more.
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@d-healey Well, I only saw this in ProJucer some time ago,
but your prompt made me realize I never tried it.. and it doesn't seem to work for saving either XML or HIP.
So my bad for spreading disinformation
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@aaronventure Aha yeah I think that's for user presets in the preset browser.
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Ah that is for the compiled plugin and adjusts whether to show up a native dialog window if you want to overwrite a
user PRESET
as you might want to handle it differently (with a custom modal dialog system or not all).
But you can rest assured that I doom the day I decided to call the .hip files "Presets", this sits at the top spot for badly named things in HISE.
Anyways, the suggestion of making it customizable is the one to go, I didn't write a customizable shortcut system just to not use it :)
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@Christoph-Hart said in Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s:
I didn't write a customizable shortcut system just to not use it :
Any chance you could fix the CTRL+D to duplicate bug on Linux while you're there?
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@Christoph-Hart said in Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s:
this sits at the top spot for badly named things in HISE.
Is it somewhere with
- Scriptnode Syntesiser
- Syntesizer Group
- Wavetable Synthesiser
:face_with_tears_of_joy:
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@aaronventure yeah those are just ugly and spelled incorrectly, but the preset one is criminally confusing :)
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@Christoph-Hart Is there a particular reason the naming in the UI couldn't be changed? Are you referencing these strings in the code? I mean both the spelling and the preset thing.
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@aaronventure said in Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s:
Is there a particular reason the naming in the UI couldn't be changed?
No. Thankfully I'm using a display string and a separate ID for identifying and loading the modules, so this can be changed without issues (which I just did).
I've also implemented the customizable shortcut to swap XML + HIP and what can I say... grumpy chris doesn't like changes so I'll keep it like it always was on my system...
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@Christoph-Hart Great, good to hear!
Since we we're talking about this, there's one more thing: what's up with the (non-alphabetic) ordering of FX and sound generators in the add/dropdown menu? Is that a code thing where you reference the indexes instead of their internal IDs for adding them?
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Yeah they are vaguely sorted by importance (so the Sampler module and the Container come first) but let's switch to alphabetical sorting and check how it feels...
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@Christoph-Hart I wonder how many people are now angry because they knew exactly where on the list each processor/effect was.
Jokes aside, what a great few weeks for QoL updates in HISE. Thanks, all these make working with it that much more enjoyable.
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@aaronventure said in Feature Request: bind save xml to ctrl + s:
I wonder how many people are now angry
I already added the Phase FX effect 5 times because it's at the old location of the ScriptFX...
