Feature Request: Allow shortcut keys for "Minimise Strip" and "Restore Strip Size"

[Steve Howell]

I would like to request an enhancement to Cakewalk by Bandlab please.

Specifically, the ability to be able to assign keyboard shortcuts for the "Minimize Strip" and "Restore Strip Size" features for a track, to avoid needing to mouse click on the small buttons (see screenshot below).

I asked if this was possible in the forum (https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/54233-is-there-a-keyboard-shortcut-for-minimizing-and-restoring-the-height-of-a-track-strip) but no-one has suggested to me that it is possible.

After some Googling I found that @synkrotron asked about this in 2019 also (https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/1401-keyboard-shortcut-for-minimise-strip-and-restore-strip-size/), so it sounds like it has been desired by users for some time.

The following features that ARE keyboard accessible cannot be used as workarounds:

• Auto Track Zoom (only allows one track at a time to be in expanded state, and I may wish multiple to be expanded)
• CTRL-SHIFT-Up/Down (incrementally changes the height of a track, and if used to "minimize" a track, its desirable expanded height is forgotten, and you must then incrementally increase it back to the desired height

The "Minimize Strip" and "Restore Strip Size" buttons are perfect for my needs because, in one operation, they can collapse a track to its minimum height, or resize it back to its optimum, previously set size. Having the ability to do this via the keyboard would be a huge benefit to efficiency of workflow.

Thanks for your consideration.

 

[Asato Maa]

It's a great idea! I wrote about it in 2021 too. But nothing happen yet ))

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by Asato Maa

[Glenn Stanton]

it would be nice to have global as well as project settings for this. so by default my tracks open to z-height+y-zoom, but if in my project i was them to open further and/or zoom then that is retained in the project level settings.