Going through the themes I have installed, it would seem that there's some kind of built-in minimum height that all the themes' MCPs adhere to. Not sure if there's a way to override it though.
I was about to post more or less the same thing as Sju and doppelganger, and actually, this minimal dimension for a given mixer panel is 230 pixels. There are two things :
- the minimal dimension of the mixer window
- the minimal dimension of a mixer layout panel
The first one is supposed to be driven by the following non Walter instruction (in the header of the rtconfig.txt) that fixes its minimal height, blocking it.
mcp_min_height 240
The second one is more or less driven by this Walter instruction (taken from the da - Session Mixer" layout of the default theme) :
set mcp.size [87 501 0 340]
The two first values are the 'regular' dimension of the panel, used when designing the panel itself and the place of the controls that are in it. The two last ones are values under which, when reducing the panel dimensions, a shadow appears in the bottom of it, indicating that the controls in it will no longer be displayed correctly. It doesn't block the vertical redimension of the panel itself : in this case, it only shows that between 340 and 230 pixels height, more and more controls will disappear as the panel height is reduced.
So, I'm afraid that it's not possible to make a panel with less than 230 pixels height, this with a visible extended mixer, when the panels are redimensionable (mcp.extmixer.mode [0]) as it's the case for this layout, the shared height of each area in the mixer window being driven by Reaper and not alterable by a themer.
I remember wanting Apollo to be even less in height and I "messed" around, it seems to be still in the Apollo 200%, was not 'yesterday I did it, forgot the exact how I did it, but there you go if that is what is wished for.
Thank you so much, all of you. You spared me some serious code wanking cause I couldn't find the real cause. You're all lifesavers.
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Originally Posted by doppelganger
If you want to have bigger fxlist, but smaller panel with control elements,
one more way is completely to remake layout using:
"mcp.extmixer.mode [1]" and "mcp.extmixer.position",
in this case you will be able to have bigger fxlist and smaller panel,
but it will be static, border between panel and fxlist will not be draggable.
Maybe someone else knows better solution.
This is actually an acceptable solution. Huge extmixer and little border on the bottom
Sounds simple enough (I dabbed with some WALTER, but it has been a long time) - will give a try then and see what I can mash up.
Ok guys, thanks to all of your help I think I have something here:
To get it too, download the extmixer.zip from the attachment and put in theme folder. After that add this to the end of rtconfig.txt
Code:
Layout "fa - Extended Mixer Only" "extmixer"
clear mcp.*
set mcp.size [87 501 0 340]
set mcp.trackidx [33 483 20 18 0 1 0 1]
colorsmart mcp.trackidx.color 230 230 230 0
set mcp.folder folderstate<0 [79 483 7 18 0 1 0 1] [0 483 18 18 0 1 0 1]
set mcp.extmixer.mode [1]
set mcp.fxlist.font [2 16]
set mcp.fxlist.margin [4 0 4 0 0.5]
set mcp.sendlist.font [2 16]
set mcp.sendlist.margin [4 0 4 0 0]
set mcp.fxparm.font [2 28]
set mcp.fxparm.margin [2 0 4 0 0]
set mcp.extmixer.position - - [0 0 mcp.size{x} mcp.size{y} 0 0 1 1] [0 0 0 mcp.trackidx{w}] [0 0 0 -1]
EndLayout
The only problem I encountered is that track colors are not visible. I guess that's due to background images I created not being transparent. I have no idea how to pull it off, but thankfully in my use case scenario, it's not needed.
Huge extmixer and little border on the bottom
Sounds simple enough (I dabbed with some WALTER, but it has been a long time) - will give a try then and see what I can mash up.
An example would be the FX Rack from LCS_Blue
you can simplify it further by removing all but the I/O and FX buttons on the top.
This would give more room for FX, but still have access to Solo, Mute, Recarm, Volume and Pan
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An example would be the FX Rack from LCS_Blue
you can simplify it further by removing all but the I/O and FX buttons on the top.
This would give more room for FX, but still have access to Solo, Mute, Recarm, Volume and Pan
I solved it for my needs, but any recommendation is most welcome. Who knows who will google this in coming years
Is this mod of "da - Session Mixer" layout in REAPER 5 default theme possible?
Linear Mode
