SWS Extension Updates

[teejb43]

Originally Posted by Mercado_Negro

You need to be sure that reaper.exe is not running... sws' installer checks that before trying to drop the plug-in inside your folder.

Nope, reaper.exe has not been running any of the times I tried the install. And to Shredder, I'm using Vista and I have admin privileges, not a problem there..

I'll drop the .dll in manually and see what happens..

[gofer]

Originally Posted by sws

Gofer, no problem, I added "Set item to respective track color" to the latest build. Reinstall with the link in my sig and you'll be all set!

Wheeeeeeeaaaaaauuuuuuu!!!!!!

[henge]

Originally Posted by sws

Henge and any others with issues, could you do me a favor?

Manually download this test build reaper_sws.dll to your Reaper\Plugins dir. Then restart Reaper and see if there's a file C:\swserror.txt. If so, please paste the content into a post or PM.


Yup, I do statically link.

SWS where do I look for C:\swserror.txt.?

[sws]

Originally Posted by henge

SWS where do I look for C:\swserror.txt.?

In the root of your C: drive. Juat paste "C:\swserror.txt" into the Start->Run box and see if it pops up. (Or the Start->Search box in Vista)

[henge]

Originally Posted by sws

In the root of your C: drive. Juat paste "C:\swserror.txt" into the Start->Run box and see if it pops up. (Or the Start->Search box in Vista)

What pops up is notepad displaying " wrong version "

[rluk]

Oooh, this is sweet, finally somebody tackles the colours!
I dont know if this is just me or some Cockos conspiracy but when
using Reapers "set track colours to random colours" always ends up
with atleast 50% variations of pink

But one is never to be fulfilled I guess,

Would it be possible to make more gradient ranges, so all of the
different instrument groups would have the same colour?
So i could set all my drums to different shades of green, basses to blue and so on?

Keep up the good work!

[Dali]

Originally Posted by sws

- Most of my extensions, Marker List, Snapshots, Freeze actions, Item/Mute states, ReaConsole, and now Coloring, have been consolidated into one .dll, reaper_sws.dll.

Thanks a mill... No, thanks at least 3 millions !

I was hitting a wall with the built-in macros, looking for a way to mute a send using my FCB1010.

Your extension resolved it. Thanks !

Dali

[zappsunzorn]

Are macro markers included? (updates?)

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=24297

[AlienInfix]

one kudos, and two questions:

K: SWS, thanks for the extension (Kudos!)

Q: Link to forum post or anything that explain basics to sws noob?

Q: Anyone care to post a good SWSColor file?
I figured out custom colors menu. The problem: me no good at colors.
"Damn it Jim, I'm a musician not a painter"

Thanks.

[sws]

Originally Posted by rluk

Would it be possible to make more gradient ranges, so all of the different instrument groups would have the same colour?

Hmmm, I might consider that. I'll add it to my ToDo list.

Originally Posted by zappsunzorn

Are macro markers included? (updates?)http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=24297

I haven't included macro markers in the consolidated plugin (yet), and sorry, no updates. I still consider that one quite experimental.

Originally Posted by AlienInfix

Q: Link to forum post or anything that explain basics to sws noob?

I *really* should make this more formal, but here's some links:
ReaConsole
Snapshots
MarkerList
Freeze
Time/Loop save slots
Item state slots

Originally Posted by AlienInfix

Q: Anyone care to post a good SWSColor file?

I don't have any; I suggest you bug the person who made your Reaper theme to give you 16 colors that match the theme. You can find the format of the SWSColor file above, or I can create a file for you if you PM me the colors.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback!

[bennals]

I know you've probably heard this a million times SWS, but I'll add my voice anyway. Any chance of an OS X version of your extensions? Xenakios might help...and I'd be glad to donate for the effort.

Here's hoping.

Bill.

[AlienInfix]

Originally Posted by sws

I *really* should make this more formal, but here's some links:
ReaConsole
Snapshots
MarkerList
Freeze
Time/Loop save slots
Item state slots

That's formal enough for me.

Thanks SWS.

[Joystick]

SWS you're great,

Thanks for all the cool tools, all you guys and girls working on providing new cool features on this great app, you all are great inspirations for any community effort.

Anyone knows the format of the Markerlist plugin? I mean how can I create markers in a text file and then import them into SWS Markerlist.

Also a nice utility for any person involved in skinning is Color Schemer Studio found here "http://www.colorschemer.com/" it's a great tool to create color sets.

[Hibernate]

very nice...and much appreciated...what a great program and community!

[Joystick]

Originally Posted by Hibernate

very nice...and much appreciated...what a great program and community!

Yeah, I found it through some forums when I was creating the skin for a plugin I was working on in SynthMaker.

Happy to hear that you liked it.

You know KnobMan?

[sws]

Originally Posted by Joystick

Anyone knows the format of the Markerlist plugin? I mean how can I create markers in a text file and then import them into SWS Markerlist.

The format is:
n time_in_s "Name" is_region? region_end
n=Marker/Region #
time_in_s=Time in seconds of marker/region start
"Name"=Marker/Region name, in quotes
is_region?=0 for marker, 1 for region
region_end=Time in seconds of region end, or -1 if marker
Example:
1 10.00 "Marker at 10 seconds" 0 -1

You can see the format for yourself by creating some markers, running the action "SWS: Copy marker set to clipboard" and then pasting into notepad.

If you want to get markers in, copy the text to the clipboard using notepad and run "SWS: Paste marker set from clipboard." Note this replaces all the existing markers!

Alternatively, you can edit the .RPP file directly. It's in a nice txt format that's fairly easy to interpret.

[Joystick]

I will say it again, Reaper has the most extraordinary community,

THANK YOU! For the super-fast reply, I started to understand it by pasting into a text file.

That way I'm gone import many locators that I have for some videos of animation files for a game I'm designing the sound. It will make importing locators very easy.

Once again congratulations for that great toolset!

Regards,

Panoz

[NoiseMan]

SWS, this is amazing... thanks a lot for your work.

A little question though: Running REAPER with Wine under Linux, it doesn't seem to load any extension (not yours, not the one of Xenakios). They load fine on my studio PC (WinXP). Do you have an idea why this is the case and how to work around it?

EDIT: Forget about the question, I copied them into the wrong location. Just keep the praise.

[Empty Planet]

Sorry to keep on with the resurrecting of this thread, but I know of no other way to join the chorus and thank SWS for this wonderful dll.

Thanks tons! Very helpful. Very cool!


Cheers.

[pixeltarian]

ok I love it. I think reaper was really lacking in track coloring's speed/ease of use. I have but one request:

Double clicking a track doesn't seem to be mapped to anything, can we just make that bring up the SWS track color menu? I would love this so much I'd mess myself. maybe not everyone would love it, but you could just put a checkbox for it in the "color management" window.

or if anyone knows how to map mouse actions I could do it myself...

[semiquaver]

.. and let me be the first to pledge a $5 donation when reaconsole comes to mac - anyone else?

[sws]

Originally Posted by pixeltarian

Double clicking a track doesn't seem to be mapped to anything...

Actually it selects all the items on the track.

I don't believe I can change this behavior, sorry.

[pixeltarian]

Originally Posted by sws

Actually it selects all the items on the track.

I don't believe I can change this behavior, sorry.

ohhh you're so right. I didn't have anything on the track when I was testing my theory. what about ctrl+click or alt+click or something? my biggest interface wish for reaper is more speed and ease of organizing things. if ctrl+click just dropped down pallete colors I would cry tears of joy. I just made a pretty mock up of this that you can see here:

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...200#post290200
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[jamieskeen]

Thanks for making this SWS

[Gloops]

Hello!
Is it possible to add a TempoList with the time signature?
Thank you

[Tallisman]

Originally Posted by semiquaver

.. and let me be the first to pledge a $5 donation when reaconsole comes to mac - anyone else?

I have a donation ready for what ever SWS wants it put towards, and whenever!


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[Kainer]

I´m ready to donate....
Some Mac news?

[Gravelle]

When I install SWS extension I notice that Reaper.exe constantly access the reaper.ini file.

Is this a normal behavior?

[kLyon]

I installed the new .dll - thank you very much - and then couldn't find "reorder marker IDs" on the menu any more. So I dropped the old marker .dll into the plugin folder, and now there are two SWS: Marker Utilites entries on the edit menu, only one of which has "reorder marker IDs" and "reorder region IDs."
Was this an oversight, a bug, or am I missing something?

[Bevosss]

Originally Posted by kLyon

I installed the new .dll - thank you very much - and then couldn't find "reorder marker IDs" on the menu any more. So I dropped the old marker .dll into the plugin folder, and now there are two SWS: Marker Utilites entries on the edit menu, only one of which has "reorder marker IDs" and "reorder region IDs."
Was this an oversight, a bug, or am I missing something?

It's there under SWS: renumber marker IDs.

You should only have the latest combined SWS.exe installed, it supersedes all the older plugins...and they will be deleted automatically next time you update his extension.

Btw it's native now too, ...

markers: renumber all markers in timeline order

I just use sws's marker window most of the time though.

[kLyon]

Not on my machine. It's missing from the SWS: Marker Utilites menu in the Reaper edit menu, where it used to be. Isn't there. Nada. I just re-downloaded the file and re-installed it and reorder still isn't there. Is it somewhere else now? (a different menu?)

[Bevosss]

Originally Posted by kLyon

Not on my machine. It's missing from the SWS: Marker Utilites menu in the Reaper edit menu, where it used to be. Isn't there. Nada. I just re-downloaded the file and re-installed it and reorder still isn't there. Is it somewhere else now? (a different menu?)

Ahh, the edit menu...you are right, it's gone from there.

edit: after installing the latest, it appears to be gone from the actions window and sws marker list as well!

[kLyon]

Is it somewhere else?
Thanks for the information that it's a native command; the problem is that I really don't use it enough to remember what key command I might assign to it (not to say that it isn't important: when I need it, I need it).

[Bevosss]

Originally Posted by kLyon

Is it somewhere else?
Thanks for the information that it's a native command; the problem is that I really don't use it enough to remember what key command I might assign to it (not to say that it isn't important: when I need it, I need it).

Nope, I think it's a bug.

[kLyon]

Originally Posted by Bevosss

Nope, I think it's a bug.

Well, they don't generally last too long around these parts.

Cheers.

[kLyon]

... except this time.

[sws]

Heh, I removed the reorder action recently as Cockos has made it a native command... not too surprised that people would like it back, however. I'll post up with it re-added tomorrow.

[Bevosss]

Originally Posted by sws

Heh, I removed the reorder action recently as Cockos has made it a native command... not too surprised that people would like it back, however. I'll post up with it re-added tomorrow.

Thanks mate, I thought that might be what's up...it's real convenient from the rightclick menu in your marker window, more so than assigning a command to it natively for me.

[gofer]

Hi. Don't want to press anything, but thought I mention that some of the 'select folder' related actions might need revamping for the nested folders.

- 'Select all folders' will only get top level folders.
there's currently no way to select all tracks that are marked as folder, or is there?

- 'Select previous/next folder' only select folders on the same level.
I just saw, that I can use 'select only parents/children...' actions to navigate through the levels, so I can reach any folder, but I still would like to just step through folder tracks regardless of the folder level. Just disregard me if you don't think alike.

As far as I see the others work as expected .

[Jeffos]

SWS,
I was waiting for a donation URL but as I can see on your brand new extension website, you won't do it...
So just a post to say you: "thanks A LOT !". Your extensions really BOOST my workflow, espacially the snapshot toolbox and its possible combination with the tracklist. We're not talking about "another cool tool", here! Thanks for the recent docs on the website too (it point me to the marker actions that I've missed !).

Just an improvment idea (I'm NOT requiring it, I'm happy as itis ... just some ideas after practise...): multiselection
i.e. allowing Ctrl-A (or "select all" popup item if natively catched) in the track list, markerlist etc, 1 snapshot for several selected tracks, recalling several snapshot at a time,...

note : I wonder why this thread is not stuck ?