Nameing presets

Oh hey, you are full of great ideas, onnetz!
I would enjoy that feature too. Sometimes I have run and re-run them so I can remember out of all my presets just exactly why I saved them

This feature gets requested every month and a half, and they haven't done it yet, so I kinda doubt it's gonna happen anytime soon. Personally I don't want to name 20 presets, I don't really enjoy naming the filters ha-ha. But seriously, if you feel the need to name each preset, then chances are you either have too much free time on your hands, or your filter is biting off too much territory and could be trimmed down to do a hair less and be more specific and better as a result. A filter should be easily represented with 9 presets with no names. Between the name of the filter, the category it's in, and 9 whole examples, if you can't "define" it with that much room, then it needs work, one way or the other.

jffe

Well, hey, I'm not FF, they can decide to do it any time, I'm just saying, yer not at all the first person to ask, and they still haven't done it yet, so that just kinda tells me it's not a high priority. You might check the feature request wiki though and see if that request has a reply yet, some of them say like "pending, low priority", or "no ay, don't ask again", or "working on it now etc.".

jffe

i'd rather have moveable presets. drag and drop em where and how you want to order them.

I'd settle for keeping the current preset *on* when ya go into edit mode. Sometimes I want to see how/why a certain preset is looking weird, and I have to make it the main default so that when I go into the editor I can trace it's path through the design. Not a huge deal, just change the main preset for a minute, but kind of a hassle, and something that'd probably be super easy to implement is all.

jffe

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Kraellin wrote: you lazy bum! just find the preset in your list while in the editor and double click. lol.

----Err, were that possible I would, and I wouldn't mind at all.

jffe

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Kraellin wrote: i'd rather have moveable presets. drag and drop em where and how you want to order them.

+1

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jffe wrote: Yer saying switch back to the main preset before exiting the editing area though, or the last one shown will become the new main preset?

Yes, double-click on your default preset again to load it's control values before saving. Otherwise these will be overwritten with the current presets' control values.

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jffe wrote: ----Aha ! It's under *Edit*, then *Select Filter Conttrols*.

Alternatively, you could also select the little box under the Result component labeled 'Filter Controls' and navigate to the Presets tab, or - even more convenient - just hit the 'F' key.

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Kraellin wrote: just one note on the F key. this will only work if no components are currently highlighted. so, click the mouse on the workspace first to un-highlight any of those and then hit F

I must be running a pre 2.0 beta of FF then... hitting 'F' works here, regardless of any prior selection whatsoever.

jffe wrote:

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Aha ! It's under *Edit*, then *Select Filter Conttrols*. Did not know that was possible. Thanks.

Very, cool -- I wish I knew of this feature before...

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onyXMaster wrote: Named presets is an interesting idea, but not before we implement custom images for preset previews (if we will implement them at all)

Yesss
Soooo...it will happen...someday