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Marc

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This challenge comes courtesy of Steven Ong..

Take a look at the image below. There are only two panes in there. The right one is the tricky one, its a list mode pane with the parameters displayed.... But yet the parameters are below the list.

The challenge is to see if you can replicate the layout.

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On your marks, get set... GO!

Marc

P.S. This has not been touched by photoshop.

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I don,t know about another challange but being able to display

parameters of multiple OPs at the same time is something

I've been missing for some time now. Really missing!

Maybe we should make it an RFE? Along with the ability to reposition

Parameters dialog box to anywhere in the network.

Heck! I wouldn't mind being able to "pin" the Parameters window to the network background and pan/zoom like we do now with Network boxes!

What do you say?

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Marc, I did that first one yesterday on accident somehow, and it drove me up the fricking wall. I wanted to change it back but I don't know how it had happened. I managed to change it back, but I'm not exactly sure what I did. I think I was just clicking randomly on the parameter window border. :lol:

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I don,t know about another challange but being able to display

parameters of multiple OPs at the same time is something

Just open up two parameter panes and make sure they're not linked together. Or you can always right-click on a specific node and choose Parameters ....

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Marc, I did that first one yesterday on accident somehow, and it drove me up the fricking wall. I wanted to change it back but I don't know how it had happened. I managed to change it back, but I'm not exactly sure what I did. I think I was just clicking randomly on the parameter window border. :lol:

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Yeah, isn't it annoying? :D

Steven showed me how to do it, and then I spent the next 30 minutes waving my cursor around there in a futile manner. I finally got it though...

I'll try and explain the secret in a few days :)

Marc

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muahahaha.....

..hmm. no evil genius smiley, I'll have to look for one.

I'll try get some screen shots together this morning and see if I can explain it.

Marc

:edit : alright here it is, I'll do my best.

You see that little dark line right in the middle of the pretty red circle there? Its located just to the top/left of the parameter resize bar. If you see your cursor change to the resize one then you've gone too far.

double edit: I just figured out a better way to do it...

Click on the line and move your mouse to where the resize line is, then let go of the mouse button. I can do it every time now.

If it doesn't work its because you either didn't click on the dark grey line, or you moved your mouse too far before releasing the button.

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Have fun :)

Marc

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Didn't Jason already giveaway the answer? I mean, it only stays that way until you pan/zoom in the net editor, right?

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Oh no no; two different things. What Jason mentioned *does* go away as soon as you pan/zoom. This other thing stays that way. PLUS. I don't know if you've tried this yet Steven, but you can go back and forth between the two modes (stacked vertically, or stacked horizontally). When they are stacked horizontally (default "factory" mode) you click on the little black line of the vertical greyed-out scroll bar; this stacks them vertically. Then, to go back to horizontal, you do the click-drag trick using the horizontal scroll bar.

I kinda like the vertical stacking :P

Cheers!

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How about this one... besides the vertical stacking of the parameter pane, we get the group list as a vertical pane (normally horizontal), and the operator tree horizontal (when it is normally vertical).

Not that I like this layout, mind you, but it's fun to see what one can get it to do :P

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