Feature Request: More Buttons in the Control Bar "custom" Module

[jimlynch22]

I use the Custom Module on the  Control Bar quite a lot (who can remember all the key bindings?).  The current Custom Module allows a maximum of 9 buttons. Even 3 more would be very useful.

[Lord Tim]

I'd agree with that, and I'd also add that it would be cool to use icons as well as, or instead of text. You could do it similar to the Small / Medium / Large / Auto size modules for everything else, and have small be just icons, medium be text, and large be both perhaps. Fitting 12 icons in a module would be super easy and great to save space.

[User 905133]

16 hours ago, jimlynch22 said:

Feature Request: More Buttons in the Control Bar "custom" Module:

. . . The current Custom Module allows a maximum of 9 buttons. Even 3 more would be very useful.

When I started using the Custom Module, I stumbled onto a workaround using Workspaces--different sets of buttons based on different types of projects. Not disagreeing with you or @Lord Tim's suggestions immediately below; just mentioning one possible workaround until there is a change. Another option might be to have a Folders Module so that a button will call up a floating window of custom buttons (for example).

WRT Workspaces, a while ago I explored micro changes using Workspaces. Based on my experience, it might be possible to have a Workspace that changes just the current set of custom buttons.  

Again, having a parameter that allows users to choose 9, 12, 15, 18 . . . n buttons sounds like a good idea to me and is probably easier and less confusing than using a Workspaces work-around.  Lines as dividers, icons, category labels, etc. would work for me, too.

[Lord Tim]

Using workspaces is an excellent suggestion.   It's a lot more powerful than even experienced users give it credit for in some ways.

 

[Will.]

3 hours ago, User 905133 said:

 I stumbled onto a workaround using Workspaces

Yeah - you can't go wrong with Workspaces. ("PUN ALERT") It's like looking through your own personal "Lenses" into your workflow. ? 

I have them customed to every template, I've created for most major popular genre's projects I get to mix - or my own.