05-30-2020, 08:13 AM | #1 |
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REAPER Environment Variables
I have never even looked at the scripting or Python interfaces in REAPER, but I am getting VERY tired of not being able to SEE thumbnail icons when I'm looking for track icons in REAPER's file dialog.
My question for today is, does REAPER maintain it's own system variables that can be read through scripting or Python? In particular, if I were to browse in REAPER's "Pick a track icon" browser out to a location like, ~/.config/REAPER/Data/track_icons/Percussion/ does REAPER have the above location sitting in a variable that I could read and then launch THUNAR to the same location via a custom button or something? THUNAR displays thumbnails, so if I could just hand it the location I've navigated to in REAPER, I wouldn't have to spend ten fucking minutes doing something simple like choosing an appropriate track icon. Edit: I should add that I use track templates that are already setup with the icon that is an image of each of my 7 guitars, banjo, mandolin basses and drums. The problem arises when I've used tracks that I didn't have a template with icon already setup, as was the case with some percussion instruments the other day. Navigate in REAPER for Linux file browser to pick one of the many "shaker" icons but all I see is the text, so I try the first one. BAM, it's some kind of world instrument thing that looks nothing like my egg shaker. So I try the next one only seeing text and no image. Lather, Rinse, Repeat, and eventually I'll hit one that looks something like the instrument on the track. Very time consuming and counterproductive. Last edited by Glennbo; 05-30-2020 at 09:16 AM. |
05-31-2020, 09:07 AM | #2 |
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I guess the answer is no. Bummer. I always loved how my programming editor would let me construct commands using a combination of these internal variables and my own static text.
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06-02-2020, 11:37 AM | #3 |
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I tried drag & drop, only shows up into the arrange, but, it shows up into the arrange.. guess a drag & drop thing'ie could be implemented, but not by me hehe
The only scripts i've seen is to copy/paste icons from one track to another from ReaPack, so you could have lots of empty tracks in a track folder or, something just, for this purpose Linux is veeery good with thumbs, including .xcf
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So I could construct something like, /usr/bin/thunar $REAPER_Variable_With_The_Current_Folder and put it on a button so when selecting a track icon I could navigate in REAPER to the folder where I know I want an icon from (like Percussion), then click my custom button to open the same folder in Thunar where I will see thumbnails of the twenty shakers with names like "shaker1, shaker2, Etc." Then after using my eyeballs on actual little pictures, I could decide that "shaker 18" is in fact the one that looks pretty similar to the shaker I used on my track. Finally after deciding on "shaker18" via a thumbnail, I would switch back to REAPER's file brower and select "shaker18" without having to have loaded shakers 1-17 only to find out that they are not what I need. |
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you could also go to your icon folder, maximize, zoom and .. *BAM!* new wallpaper
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At least REAPER could give us Linux users a button on the file browser that could temporarily hand the job over to a file browser that is up to the task of displaying graphics when searching for graphics, like Thunar or Nautilus. |
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ohh - glennbo
For what it is worth, i agree with you that if REAPER support .png stuff then you should be able to ... - ... SEE it! You could/should post a FR me thinks, hope it is not complicated to Dev, does not sound like a Huge FR so, but what do i know about programming..
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Yeah you are right, all is fine on Windows and i'm guessing Mac also heheh
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A simple button on the file browser in the middle image, that would launch the file browser in the third image to the same folder location would be way better than text only with no way to preview. |
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06-09-2020, 10:15 AM | #11 |
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Sh1-t, for a 0.0003 millisec-moment, i thought it all worked on XCFE..
It might be the case that REAPER for Linux is a Justin-singlehandedly-thing project, but Glenboo is just saying, how about This be the next thing to tackle if, at all possible, thank you wewwy much.
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Then again I know about as much as you do, about programming...probably less. It may be easy to implement. I just added a +1 and your picture to your FR thread (and a link to this thread). Last edited by JamesPeters; 06-09-2020 at 10:45 AM. |
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