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What rack am I in?
Posted: 29 Oct 2022, 23:37
by woodslanding
I have a lot of deliberately identical patches across multiple racks. It would be nice if the patch editing window showed which rack (and maybe slot) I was editing. For now, I'm often not sure which patch I edited, and need to select a patch, drill down to the subpatch, and see if the edit is there. If it isn't there, I have to figure out where exactly it is.
I try to always edit the patch in the lowest number rack, but sometimes I'm in another one and don't realize, and sometimes there's a good reason for editing the version in another rack.
Something like:
Rack1>Slot2>MySubpatch>DetailPatch
or
1.2.MySubpatch.DetailPatch
where I currently just see:
DetailPatch
Also, when I navigate from the search window, there's really no way to know which rack I'll end up in....
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 29 Oct 2022, 23:41
by woodslanding
While I'm at navigation in the patching window.... It would be nice to be able to use the stock browser window commands, alt-left and alt-right to navigate the patching window's < and >.
I'll also note that when navigating this way, the above clues to location would be even more helpful, especially with deeply nested subpatches that may be superficially similar....
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 30 Oct 2022, 13:03
by grego mondo
+1
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 31 Oct 2022, 18:14
by woodslanding
And along the same lines.... when I use the search function, I get the rather unhelpful [order=nnnnn] indicator. The channel and slot would be much more helpful information. I'll also note that the search window stays on top of other applications, so I had to close it to finish writing this post:
cheers!
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 01 Nov 2022, 08:44
by cmodica
woodslanding wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 23:37
I have a lot of deliberately identical patches across multiple racks. It would be nice if the patch editing window showed which rack (and maybe slot) I was editing. For now, I'm often not sure which patch I edited, and need to select a patch, drill down to the subpatch, and see if the edit is there. If it isn't there, I have to figure out where exactly it is.
I try to always edit the patch in the lowest number rack, but sometimes I'm in another one and don't realize, and sometimes there's a good reason for editing the version in another rack.
Something like:
Rack1>Slot2>MySubpatch>DetailPatch
or
1.2.MySubpatch.DetailPatch
where I currently just see:
DetailPatch
Also, when I navigate from the search window, there's really no way to know which rack I'll end up in....
+1
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 01 Nov 2022, 10:50
by rlgsbt
+1
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 03 Nov 2022, 14:21
by senso
I'll implement what we call "breadcrumb" in the patching window and the inspector.
https://vwo.com/blog/why-use-breadcrumbs/
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 03 Nov 2022, 22:48
by rlgsbt
Great. breadcrumb seems to be a very nice solution.
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 04 Nov 2022, 10:16
by cmodica
Cool.
Re: What rack am I in?
Posted: 29 Nov 2022, 08:04
by woodslanding
Love it!!!