[Ardour-Users] Feature Request: Saving the defined views in a session

[Paul Davis]

names are never ever considered unique identifiers in ardour.

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Gunter Königsmann <gunter at peterpall.de>
wrote:

> wxMaxima gives all GUI objects a name that describes them and if this
> description matches an saved object state this state is restored on load.
> Don't know if such a unique description can be made for all gui objects in
> ardour and if all objects know enough about their purpose, currently, that
> they can name themselves. So I don't know if this apprroach an be of any
> use to ardour.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gunter
>
> Am 16. September 2017 04:27:39 MESZ schrieb Paul Davis <
> paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>:
>>
>> we could store the state in terms of backend IDs and information and
>> lookup the current GUI objects representing them, no?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/16/2017 02:17 AM, jonetsu wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Would it be possible to save the defined views (defined by using
>>> > Ctrl-F[n]) in a session so that they are remembered for the next time
>>> > work is done ?
>>> >
>>>
>>> http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=6145
>>>
>>> It's not trivial to do so and requires some extensive re-design and is
>>> unlikely to happen in the near future.
>>>
>>> It's been a few years since I last investigated this but if I remember
>>> correctly the main issue was that most GUI Objects do receive a new,
>>> different GUI Object ID every time a session is loaded and the state is
>>> only meaningful for the current instance.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to not bring better news,
>>> robin
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