nesting Mouse Areas within Stacked Macro

silvermoats
silvermoats Member Posts: 7 Newcomer
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I'm using two separate mouse areas, switchable with a panel index button, within the same stacked macro, to draw in levels which are being routed out to two overlapping multi displays (using transparency). For the most part this works as intended - the issue I'm having is that the mouse areas stop recognizing any input after adjusting another panel element located within the same macro as one of the multi displays, and I have to go into Structure and re-select the mouse area to initialize it. The only fix seems to be moving the offending panel controls outside of the macro that is receiving the outputs from the mouse area but it's not clear to me why that should be the case, I think I've turned on the relevant "always active" controls..

Selecting either of the display containing macros in structure de-activates the mouse area in the same way - this is tolerable but I'd really like to be able to use all the panel controls without having to reboot. Is this a known bug or result of some intentional functionality with the Mouse Area I'm overlooking?

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  • silvermoats
    silvermoats Member Posts: 7 Newcomer

    I realized my initial post was a bit unclear, so to clarify-

    I think the issue I'm having is with Reaktor 'selecting' the most recently active macro when several are occupying the same panel space - this process seems to prioritize the panel elements nested within the fewest layers of Macros. Fine, but I want one or the other mouse areas to always have this priority access to the outermost layer, and simply grouping them in a stacked macro with the corresponding transparent displays won't work for me since I want those to always be visible. So I guess my core issue is around panel display more than anything else.

    Main question - is there a way to consistently have any panel element brought to 'front' other than nesting modules within an arbitrary # of macros?

  • gentleclockdivider
    gentleclockdivider Member Posts: 322 Advisor
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    Doesn't layer help ?

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  • silvermoats
    silvermoats Member Posts: 7 Newcomer
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/229366#Comment_229366

    thanks, I had no idea about this…I'm running an ancient Reaktor build where this functionality seems to be missing but that's good to be aware of. for now, I got a temporary fix for the issue by extending the mouse area slightly below the display and starting the cursor there.

  • gentleclockdivider
    gentleclockdivider Member Posts: 322 Advisor

    You're using stacked macros and IIrc that feature was introduced in reaktor 5.0 , layer functionality too .

  • silvermoats
    silvermoats Member Posts: 7 Newcomer

    Those features being introduced together would make sense, but I'm not seeing the latter on the Mouse Area view properties in Reaktor 5…I bought this software a long time ago and only started making use of it recently - other than opening projects saved with 6, that's the first feature I've noticed missing out on - will have to monitor the next discounted upgrade window.

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  • gentleclockdivider
    gentleclockdivider Member Posts: 322 Advisor

    Huh that's weird , so layers fuctionality was not there yet in 5.0

    I thought it was , stacked macro for sure was since I made heavy use of it .

    Well , I guess it's time for you to upgrade to 6.x , it's worth it !

  • colB
    colB Member Posts: 1,097 Guru

    Yeah, layers came with grouping, that was some time after Blocks... blocks was R6...

    Probably came in the same update as antialased lines in multi-display

  • dreason85
    dreason85 Member Posts: 88 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/229456#Comment_229456

    I checked and it was added in version 6.0.3.

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