🎸 SCRIPT – Track Icon Selector v1.03 (09/30/2024)

[Alez156]

👋 hi friends!

I love using track icons. But I was tired of having to open the file browser every time.

I started writing a feature request on how I think it should be handled. Then I started to mockup a couple of interfaces and thought of what features would be cool to have. Then I thought this could maybe be a script!!

Later that day I asked @Sexan if it was possible to create this...
He said yes and immediately started working. Within minutes he already has a solid prototype going. I got so excited and we spent the whole day reiterating and testing until it was done!

I still can't believe it was all in one day. Sexan is incredible and I would love to collaborate again and make more UX improvements to REAPER 🤩

And well here it is~






🔑 Key Features
– Intuitive Interface: Quickly browse and select icons from a visually appealing interface.
–Instant Search: Efficiently find specific icons using the built-in search function.
– Categorization: Organize icons into categories in the sidebar for easy navigation.
– Resizable Icons: Resize icons with a slider to fit your screen better.
– Sidebar Preferences: Control whether the sidebar opens automatically on script launch, quit after applying icon and show filename on hover. You can also customize the colors to better match your theme!
– Dockable Window: Conveniently dock the script window to the left of your tracks for easy access.
– Yellow Outline Around Used Icons: Instantly identify tracks that already have icons applied.
– Drag and drop: Click and drag any icon into your tracks. Works with TCP and MCP.


⚙️ How to install
• This script is available through Reapack via the default ReaTeam repository
Make sure you have ReaImGui installed and up to date for this to work 👍

👍 Creating and Modifying Categories:
To create or modify categories for your icons, navigate to the following REAPER folder: REAPER Folder > Data > track_icons
Within this folder, create or modify folders to represent your desired categories. The script will automatically recognize these folders as categories in the sidebar, allowing you to filter icons based on their assigned categories.

🎸 That's it!
Let me know any ideas or bugs, I'd love to further improve this! 💪

🎁 Donate to Sexan!
He recently started a ko-fi page and I think he very much deserves all the coffee in the world for all these UX goodness.

🎸 Need icons?
I made a pretty cool icon pack to accompany this script you can check out! → Essential Icon Pack for REAPER

[Touristkiller]

This is sooo cool! You couldn't have found a better partner for this Alez. Sexan is great! You do the design and ideas and Sexan does the coding. I say a super duo that we can be happy and proud of here in the Reaper community

Hopefully together (and each for yourself) you can create many more beautiful things for us

[Spookye]

Thank you so much guys! You are creating beautiful things!
Well done!

[Coachz]

Great job guys. Stuff like this just makes Reaper more fun to use.

[X-Raym]

Your new icon pack is excellent !! If they were free to use I would have pack some of them with my 16 drum pad remapper JSFX, way higher resolution than native icons :P



About this script, maybe a bit disturbing to have icon disapear if no track selected





IMHO, would be better if icons didnt disapear, but if you could instead click and drag icon into empty tcp area to create a track with this icon directly.


Cheers !




EDIT: also, it misses a way to just delete icon from there.

[Hipox]

Hi!

Congrats on a release of the script I'd have a few tips for improvement:

- The "category" or folder name in reaperpath/Data/track_icons/ displayed in the left sidebar of the script's GUI can exceed the predermined space and then it's cut short. The left folder browser can not be extended to accomodate full folder's name length. I propose making the left section's width resizable with a memory of the last settings.

- For some reason, the icon's zoom level gets resetted to the minimal value every time I start the script - I propose implementing saving and restoring the last setting of this parameter too.

- I also experienced a Reaper's crash while manipulating the interface, if I find a way to replicate it, I will let you know.

* I am on Windows 11, latest Reaper beta release.

I bought the Essential Icons Pack, great work

[schapps]

Absolutely awesome! Thanks for making this. I too love track icons =)

[Alez156]

@Touristkiller
Thank you so much, glad you think so!! That's exactly what I was thinking, we make a great team!

@Spookye
That looks soooo awesome! I love those icons!! So glad you like it!

@Coachz
Thank youuu thank you

@X-Raym
Raaaaay <3 aa I am happy to send these to you, will DM you, you can use anything you want for anything ~

And that's a very good suggestion! it's indeed jarring! Will add to list 📝

@Hipox
Ooo those are amazing suggestions! Thank you so much. I wrote them down 📝
And we just pushed an update that fixes the crash and some of the scrolling jitter that was happening.
And it means a lot that you got the icons, thank you!! <3

@schapps
Thank youu

[Hipox]

It's great to see this much of an interest for improvement!

I have one more suggestion, would it be possible to set focus to search (so user can start typing some filter string) right when the script opens?

[Alez156]

Originally Posted by Hipox

It's great to see this much of an interest for improvement!

I have one more suggestion, would it be possible to set focus to search (so user can start typing some filter string) right when the script opens?

That's such a good one! I think it should definitely auto-focus on the search field, that'd make it muuch snappier. Added to list 📝

[MAGiX]

Originally Posted by Alez156

That's such a good one! I think it should definitely auto-focus on the search field, that'd make it muuch snappier. Added to list 📝

Hello,

I would like to suggest an improvement that I believe would enhance the usability of your script. It would be very helpful if the icon size adjusted with the slider could be retained after restarting. Currently, the icon size resets to the default value with each new launch, requiring it to be manually adjusted every time.

Saving the icon size settings would significantly improve the user experience. I hope this suggestion proves useful and can be implemented in future updates.

Thank you in advance for your attention!

[ses717]

Love this new selector tool!

A few thoughts:

-Add undo option(doesn't appear in edit menu maybe bc it's a script?)

-could there be a prompt if an icon already exists bc I hit by mistake and it overwrites(no undo) and I may not remember what I had there or which track was focused

-distorted icons larger than 64x64. Since you can go up to 64x94 icon size(I have a few custom 'guitar icons' that fit well with a higher track height(see pic)

-remember last icon display'size'on next open

-see file properties, ie size, date

-sort option


Thank you!
:-)
Steve S.
NJ

[FeedTheCat]

Hey alejandro,

love the icons and the script (props to Sexan!).

Some feedback on the script:

As others mentioned, would be nice if the icon size persisted when restarting the script. I also missed being able to use the mousewheel on the size slider.

Drag & drop icons on tracks would be a nice UX-addition imo. You see an icon you like for a track, just drop it on there. Changing track selection first is an extra step that can lead to more extra steps (e.g. when that track has an icon from another category which leads to a category switch and then you have to go back etc.).

I'd also prefer it if icons were visible when no track is selected.

Overall this is really awesome though. Not sure how it is on other platforms but here on Linux the native dialog doesn't show any preview of the icon. So I'd basically never add an icon manually (I use SWS auto-color/icon). Maybe the devs get inspired and add a native icon selector (we do have one for toolbar icons so I don't think it'd be much trouble).

[Alez156]

Thank you thank you thank youuuu! ❤️

We are adding a bunch of your suggestions and some things I found. Thank you for all the feedback, so excited, your ideas are amazing

[Alez156]

✨ New update v1.03! ✨

• • Add dir entry to table 0 index (All icons)
  • Tweak Panel All Icons position a bit
  • Panel size is determined by largest folder name
  • Rework/Optimize size slider (cpu was hitting 10% while slider was held)
  • Show all icons if no track is selected
  • Focus search input on script start
  • Fix path issue on linux (double slashes)
  • Store current size into exstate
  • Add option to close the script when ESC is released (on by default)
  • Added images/icons for Panel/Menu, Reset/Remove icon from track
  • Added Drag and drop support (can only be single track TCP or MCP)
  • Added Undo Points on icon change/remove
  • Added CTRL+Z shortcut passthrough to reaper

Sooooo happy with this new drag and drop feature!! 😍

[Alez156]

We will add a few more amazing features tomorrow 😉

thank you everyone for the genius feedback!! 🙏

[Touristkiller]

Hahaha....you don't let the grass grow under your feet 😜 Great job Alejandro....
The drag and drop is nice!! Thanks again for your cool idea and Sexan......
well I think I should buy that man a bar of chocolate.....what a hero! 🥳🎆😂💪

[ses717]

Thank you, Alejandro and Sexan!

Very much appreciate the creative efforts!

No other DAW has such a deep level of customization, and in particular the Track Icons. That has been a big pet peve of mine for a long time. Being 'artists' how can these other DAW developers overlook this seemingly simple feature request be ignored. I use my ears AND my eyes LOL

[airon]

Ok, fixed it. It was a misnamed image file or two.

Irfanview offers to rename a file if it detects a mismatch between the extension and the actual format. One was a JPG disguised as a PNG. The other was a PSD disguised as a PNG. Renamed the first, saved the second as a PNG and got rid of the PSD, and all worked fine.

I have to say, this is the way to do it.
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Win10. Normal install.

Trying it out for the first time, I'm getting an error message on startup.

...eaTeam Scripts\Tracks\reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:328: ImGui_CreateImage: unsupported format

After that a windows appears




I've just updated all my packages via Reapack. Tried OpenGL for ReaImGUI. I've included a file list of my track icons in simple format.

[Hipox]

Thank you, guys, for the update now the script completely fullfils my needs and it's pleasant to use. It's definitely a Must Have script!

[X-Raym]

✨ New update v1.03! ✨

Don't forget to update tread title :P

@X-Raym
Raaaaay <3 aa I am happy to send these to you, will DM you, you can use anything you want for anything ~

O hmany tanks !! Contact me on Slack for PM ! <3

[batcat]

Thanks guys for this great script!
I couldn't find a way to use it with the Master track, where I also use an icon.
Is that possible?

[Sexan]

Works fine here, did you enabled option to show icons on mixer?

[batcat]

Yes it's enabled.
I just tried the drag and drop icon, and that works on my master track!
What I can't get working on the master track is just having it selected and then click an icon in the script.
The icon in the master track doesn't change if I do that.
with normal tracks I can just select a track, click an icon in the script and it changes the track icon.

[Sexan]

Ah... will fix that (along with removing icons from it)

[WarrenG]

Really like this script but after last update the script hangs Reaper (Not Responding) After about 30 seconds it releases and the action list does not show in the action list that it was applied but Reaper continues to run normally.

Wish I have more info then that for troubleshooting

Windows 11
Reaper 7.23rc4

Warren

[Sexan]

All are small updates, don't see anything that would do something like that. Can you uninstall/install the script again?

You are talking about 1.05 update?

Anyone else on Windows experience the same issue? Works fine on linux and osx.

[X-Raym]

Anyone else on Windows experience the same issue?

Just updated, works perfecly fine here (win 10x64)

[batcat]

Originally Posted by Sexan

Ah... will fix that (along with removing icons from it)

I just updated and tested.
Icons on master track work like icons on regular tracks now.
Cheers!

[X-Raym]

@MAGiX
Hi ! I'm not the dev of this plugin, it's Sexan and Alez126's project !
But I don't personnaly feel the need for it as I already have color buttons on my main toolbar. And I mostly use auto-color from name. They are dedicated color palette script as well, who can do more than just track color. 😉

[Sumalc]

Hello thank you very useful reascript but i get this message after update :
(g.CurrentWindowStack.Size == 1) && "Mismatched Begin/BeginChild vs End/EndChild calls: did you forget to call End/EndChild?"

[Sexan]

Originally Posted by Sumalc

Hello thank you very useful reascript but i get this message after update :
(g.CurrentWindowStack.Size == 1) && "Mismatched Begin/BeginChild vs End/EndChild calls: did you forget to call End/EndChild?"

Will add traceback for next update for detailed crash report since that message on its own does not mean much (its on every crash)

[Spookye]

Works great here...no errors. (W732b)
Thanks guys also for the right click on the "pause" symbol.

[Sumalc]

i get this :
Error: reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:366: ImGui_CreateImage: unsupported format

Stack traceback:
[C]: in field 'CreateImage'
reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:366: in upvalue 'PngSelector'
reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:605: in function <...eaTeam Scripts/Tracks/reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:577>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:86: in function <...eaTeam Scripts/Tracks/reapertips_Track icon selector.lua:85>

Reaper: 7.22/macOS-arm64
Platform: macOS-arm64

[Sexan]

Some of your images is not true png or whatever (do you have some xyz formats in there, it can even be PNG but not with proper header).

Script does not continue working? Thats crash on startup?

EDIT: Will push soon update that will show which image is problematic

EDIT2: Update will be soon on ReaPack

[Touristkiller]

Works smoothly here on my old laptop and I have a little user tip 😉
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=126

[Vagelis]

Originally Posted by Touristkiller

Works smoothly here on my old laptop and I have a little user tip 😉
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=126

Ah nice idea to capture the plugin that way and use it as a track icon. Also congrats to everyone involved with this useful script.

[WarrenG]

Originally Posted by WarrenG

Really like this script but after last update the script hangs Reaper (Not Responding) After about 30 seconds it releases and the action list does not show in the action list that it was applied but Reaper continues to run normally.

Wish I have more info then that for troubleshooting

Windows 11
Reaper 7.23rc4

Warren

I think this issue is of my own making and the script eventually loads, it takes a while about a minute but then works fine. My issue is most likely do to me loading a large quantity of png files of my FX, insturments etc.

Not sure if there is a way to speed things up when a large amount of pics are loaded.

Thanks

Warren

[Sexan]

Yeah I can make caching system which will speed up things a lot after database is build. How many images are talking about here ? +1000?

[Sumalc]

Originally Posted by Sexan

Some of your images is not true png or whatever (do you have some xyz formats in there, it can even be PNG but not with proper header).

Script does not continue working? Thats crash on startup?

EDIT: Will push soon update that will show which image is problematic

EDIT2: Update will be soon on ReaPack

no special crash and worked fine with V 1.02