Sharing Custom Actions, Toolbars, etc.

[IDDQDSound]

Hey everyone!

I'll be teaching a class in basics of Reaper in a few days time. One thing I want to do is to be able to share some of the grunt work with the students. For example, I have made a custom toolbar where you can toggle show/hide groups of tracks based on name (Sfx, Dialogue, Music, etc.), and each icon triggers a custom action, and each custom action contains a couple of SWS/Lokasenna actions.

What's the best way to share everything related to that toolbar with my students in one neat package? Obviously using Config is a bit much cuz it would give them everything I have. Is there a way to package all icons, scripts, custom actions, and the toolbar and just give them that?

[bobobo]

Grunt work ¿? why not teaching this?

-- i dont like answers like this myself. -- so

you can install REAPER as portable, config it the way you need.
zip it and give it to the students

be aware not to break license here.

or

you can save whole or parts of your config
and can restore whole or parts of this config on other devices.

[IDDQDSound]

Originally Posted by bobobo

you can install REAPER as portable, config it the way you need.
zip it and give it to the students

be aware not to break license here.

or

Hey there! Thanks for the reply. Yeah I thought of Portable Installs and Configs, but for example if I only choose custom actions in my configs, it still gives them all my custom actions, I was hoping to provide small packages in increments so as to not overwhelm them.

[foxAsteria]

I've thought a lot about teaching Reaper and I think the best thing about Reaper is that it lets you work the way you want; not how someone else thinks you should work. So why not teach it that way?

I would spend the first week showing the multitude of ways to do anything and show them the benefits of customization around individual preference and workflow.

I know it would be easier to teach if everyone was using exactly the same tools, but it means you might as well teach a more common DAW. The whole process of exporting/importing actions and keeping them in a toolbar is already overwhelming, and is it really faster than creating the ones you need and adding them to a toolbar as needed? It's certainly not more educational.

If you want to share individual actions, select them in actions list, click export/selected items. Or create scripts/cycle actions.

[nicholas]

Within the Customize Menus/Toolbars window there are Export and Import functions for selected custom toolbars and/or menus.