Timeline focus on current layer

[schwarzgrau]

It would be nice if we could minimize the timeline, focussing on the current layer.

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Of course this is something you can do manually, but it's kind of a struggle every time I try to minimize it to that size, especially for every layer.
I don't know if it's possible to change the size of a panel through scripting, but I think it could be a great space and time save, especially for small screens.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Maybe I'm not understanding, but if you highlight all those layers from their headers you can minimize them all at once by minimizing just one of those.

[schwarzgrau]

I guess you really misunderstood me. I don't want to minimize the layers, I would like to minimize the timeline to the size of the current layer. So you could see the keyframes of the layer you're working on, but nothing you don't need to see.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Sorry, I didn't think that you wouldn't know something so basic, but I am still confused as to what you want, even when looking at the screen prints, which all look normal. What exactly is a timeline, but a layer or layers panel?

[slowtiger]

Paul - he wants to minimize the layers horizontally, not the layer title column vertically. Something like "fit layer to view", but self-adapting to the current layer.

[schwarzgrau]

Sorry I called it timeline, but I guess it's called layer panel. Yea, as I said, it's nothing special: in the first screenshot the layer panel fills a large chunk of the screen, in the second screenshot it's scaled down to the size of the current layer. Of course you can do this manually, but it would be nice if there could be something like a shortcut to do this, cause it's always pretty fiddly to scale it to such a small scale. A bit like you can now hide or show the notes or sound by pressing a button.

EDIT: exactly Slowtiger. Weird, that most of the time only other germans or dutch people understand what I'm trying to explain. I guess this has something to do with my way of translating it in my head to english.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Well, at least I have a German name (or Austrian, to be precise).

[schwarzgrau]

That's nice, but unfortunately it wont help you understanding my weird sentences

[NathanOtano]

I'd really appreciate if we can fit the size of the panel to the active layer, it would be a great way to get free space easily. Options for optimizing screenspace while keeping the right informations can be a really great add i think. I sometimes feel the layer panel too manual and graphically heavy, in an all-automated world. But i guess it's what we need to have all those options.