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OSARA: Open Source Accessibility for the REAPER Application
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Optimal Config: uncheck FX Browser, Options menu, Show in FX list, Plug-in type prefixes #1153

Open ScottChesworth opened 2 months ago

ScottChesworth commented 2 months ago

This is checked by default, but with it unchecked, browsing through FX becomes waaaaay more productive as REAPER strips the type prefixed before each entry in the list control. I demoed the difference during a stream and received enthusiastic requests for unchecking this to be added to our optimal config.

In a futile attempt to implement it, I saved two copies of an ini file with the state of this setting being the only variable. When checked (default), this line is in reaper.ini: uiflags=4 When unchecked, that becomes: uiflags=16777220 And when I read that, my brain did: sleep=1000000000000000

Is this one of those situations where Cockos are storing multiple things in that key? I feel like something similar to this came up in a previous addition to optimal config and I think @jcsteh knew what was going on then. Just between us, I only pretended to understand last time around.

HELP!

jcsteh commented 2 months ago

Based on the values you provided, assuming this was in the [REAPER] section of the ini file, you want this:

{"REAPER", "uiflags", 1 << 24, 16777220},

You should definitely test this though. :)

jcsteh commented 2 months ago

Is this one of those situations where Cockos are storing multiple things in that key?

Yes. It looks like they're storing at least 24 flags (likely on/off settings) in that single key. 😲

ScottChesworth commented 2 months ago

Just tried the suggestion and it didn't work unfortunately. OSARA builds, the prompt appears, but the setting isn't adjusted when I restart REAPER. Same behaviour using my ini and a fresh portable. Any advice on how to troubleshoot is very welcome.

jcsteh commented 2 months ago

assuming this was in the [REAPER] section of the ini file

It isn't. It's in the [REAPER-fxadd] section of the ini file. Sorry, I intended my "assuming" comment to mean "please check this before assuming I'm correct", but it probably wasn't clear. :)

So, that means the code should be:

{"REAPER-fxadd", "uiflags", 1 << 24, 16777220},

However, when I looked locally, unchecking this option gave me 16777216, not 16777220. It could be that I changed some other setting at some point, but just to be sure, you may wish to check the value with a clean REAPER config. If it ends up being 16777216, you want this line:

{"REAPER-fxadd", "uiflags", 1 << 24, 16777216},