Hide All Panels shortcut?

[neonnoodle]

Also, if you're on Windows at least, this is a situation where Autohotkey really shines. I have a special Autohotkey script for TVPaint running in the background with all kinds of key reassignments and key combos bound to single keys.

[David_Fine]

I found this older thread, but I am ashamed to say that I don't get it at all, even though the words "so simple" are used earlier. Doh! Maybe it's because I am on Mac or using 11.01. I don't know, but I want to make one keystroke to toggle on and off all palettes, including ones I created myself. I can't figure out how to do it from this discussion. If anyone can help get this into my head, I would be most grateful.

[D.T. Nethery]

I found this older thread, but I am ashamed to say that I don't get it at all, even though the words "so simple" are used earlier. Doh! Maybe it's because I am on Mac or using 11.01. I don't know, but I want to make one keystroke to toggle on and off all palettes, including ones I created myself. I can't figure out how to do it from this discussion. If anyone can help get this into my head, I would be most grateful.

Hi, David,

I'm also on Mac OS with TVPaint 11.0.1 . I can confirm that hitting the F12 key will toggle-off-toggle-on all tool panels and palettes . (however to toggle the timeline on and off I must also press 0 ... it's a pretty quick maneuver to press one after the other . )

I notice on my Macbook's compact keyboard I have to simultaneously press the fn modifier key with F12 . That shouldn't be an issue with a full-size Mac keyboard , but if you are using a compact wireless keyboard with your iMac then it may require you to press the fn modifier key to activate F12 to toggle the panels on and off.

[Elodie]

I confirm David's post, but panels shall not be in drawers : they must be floating elsewhere to be toggled on and off with F12

[David_Fine]

Okay, Function key and F12 toggles the palettes, BUT, it also made the control bar (play, stop, turn sound on and off...) disappear and I have no idea how to get it back. Aargh! I really need that back, so I hope someone can tell me how to get it to return and then how to use F12 without this happening again. I can't find it in the View menu or the Windows menu. Where is it and why did it disappear??

[D.T. Nethery]

Okay, Function key and F12 toggles the palettes, BUT, it also made the control bar (play, stop, turn sound on and off...) disappear and I have no idea how to get it back. Aargh! I really need that back, so I hope someone can tell me how to get it to return and then how to use F12 without this happening again. I can't find it in the View menu or the Windows menu. Where is it and why did it disappear??

If your control bar for play, stop , sound on/off , etc. disappears , you can re-enable it from View > Windows.

(why it's called "Windows" instead of "Control Bar" or "Playback" , I have no idea) .

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[David_Fine]

Phew! Thank you so much, DT. I can see why it's called "window" because it's the whole window which disappears, but that includes this control bar (hey, there's a good name for it!) so it would be much better if that was made clear otherwise how would anyone know?

Okay, so now I can restore that, but still, when I use Function and F12, first the "window" disappears and the hit F12 again and the panels disappear (as I want them too). Hit F12 again and the panels reappear, but the "window" does not reappear. So why am I losing the window when I want to just make the panels toggle off and on?

[D.T. Nethery]

Okay, so now I can restore that, but still, when I use Function and F12, first the "window" disappears and the hit F12 again and the panels disappear (as I want them too). Hit F12 again and the panels reappear, but the "window" does not reappear. So why am I losing the window when I want to just make the panels toggle off and on?

I agree this seems a bit buggy . Pressing F12 hides the project window (including the play/control bar) and hides all open tool panels, so pressing F12 again should reveal all panels and reveal the project window with the play bar. (without going to View menu > Windows to restore the project window and play bar)

[David_Fine]

Aha! This is confirmation that it is a bug and not me. That makes me feel better. I'm guessing it is only on Macs. Okay, so that another bug to fix. I will have to add that to my other thread about stuff to fix.