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magnust

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How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« on: December 15, 2018, 04:04:46 am »

With "Startup -> Location: Last Location" set, when my last location is a pane view I don't get back to where I was when restarting MC.

Well I do sort of, I get back to the right main pane view but whatever I had chosen to see in the pane view, like an artist or a year or something is gone and I'm back to nothing chosen in the pane lists. So I don't get back to what I was viewing.

So I'm playing and browsing O'Jays albums. Shut down MC, restart MC, and... nope, no O'Jays. Has it really always worked like this?
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2018, 04:41:35 am »

I don't think that panel selection is carried over restarts. It only reopens the last tabs / views which were open.

One thing which was changed for MC24 that panel selection also get reset when entering search box. That has annoyed my workflow a bit. Don't know if this was intentional change or bug.
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2018, 09:03:50 am »

Has it really always worked like this?
Yup, always worked that way.

That has annoyed my workflow a bit.
Mine too. Probably more than "a bit" for me :)
I call it a bug, because it 'bugs' me. It's unfortunate fallout from a fix that was put in place to correct an error with dropdown panes.

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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2018, 10:08:37 am »

Probably more than "a bit" for me :)
Was trying to be polite  ;D
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2018, 01:52:08 pm »

Mine too. Probably more than "a bit" for me :)

I would pay extra if this program would honor the last location when switching libraries.

I have 6 specific tabs that I use every day in my main library - but if I switch over to my MP3 library even for a second - MC insists on opening up to the web browser and the JRiver home page (not useful at all) and then I need to spend 5 minutes organizing all my locations and tabs again - not only in that library - but also when I return to my main library.
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2018, 02:07:44 pm »

@VocalPoint,

You should save your tabs layout.  Then you can return to it with a couple of clicks later:

View > Load/Save View > Save >  (Give it a name)

then later:

View > Load/Save View > Load > (Pick your saved view name)

*Boom* all of your tabs are back!

You'll probably need to do this in both libraries, but I'm not 100% sure.  Some settings are saved independent of the loaded library; not sure about this one.

Brian.
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2018, 02:12:44 pm »

@VocalPoint,

You should save your tabs layout.  Then you can return to it with a couple of clicks later:

View > Load/Save View > Save >  (Give it a name)

then later:

View > Load/Save View > Load > (Pick your saved view name)

*Boom* all of your tabs are back!

You'll probably need to do this in both libraries, but I'm not 100% sure.  Some settings are saved independent of the loaded library; not sure about this one.

Brian.

Hmm. Thought this was just for the current "view" that is loaded - not for an entire tabset.

Will give it a try tho. Thks!

VP
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2018, 03:40:20 pm »

@VocalPoint,

You should save your tabs layout.  Then you can return to it with a couple of clicks later:

View > Load/Save View > Save >  (Give it a name)

then later:

View > Load/Save View > Load > (Pick your saved view name)

*Boom* all of your tabs are back!

You'll probably need to do this in both libraries, but I'm not 100% sure.  Some settings are saved independent of the loaded library; not sure about this one.

Brian.
This is GREAT news....lol.... shoulda known

EDIT: Sweet....
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2018, 12:31:14 pm »

I don't think that panel selection is carried over restarts. It only reopens the last tabs / views which were open.

One thing which was changed for MC24 that panel selection also get reset when entering search box. That has annoyed my workflow a bit. Don't know if this was intentional change or bug.

I wonder if it's on any long term or short term todo list on future JRiver development to make panel selection stick between restarts? That would be very very very nice  :D
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2018, 01:05:03 pm »

Someday in the future this will surface:
NEW: Made the pane selection persist between runs if you start in the last location.
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2018, 01:07:37 pm »

Someday in the future this will surface:
NEW: Made the pane selection persist between runs if you start in the last location.


Thanks Santa Matt!

Cheers,

VP
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Re: How should "Startup -> Location: Last Location" work?
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2018, 01:15:57 pm »


Thanks Santa Matt!

Cheers,

VP

+1 on that  :D :D :D
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