Tips and Tricks

The summit.factory tips and tricks dialog is shown below:

This dialog has the following controls:

Close Closes the Tips and Tricks Dialog
Next Tip Selects the next tip in sequence
Show Tips at Startup If checked then when summit.factory starts up, the Tips and Tricks Dialog is automatically opened

List of Tips and Tricks

Just in case you want the tips and tricks shown by the dialog as one single list, here they are.

Context Sensitive Help

If you press the Help Key ( F1 on a PC) then you can get context sensitive help, including within Dialogs.

Keyboard Shortcuts

summit.factory supports numerous keyboard shortcuts as an alternative to using the mouse.

Take a look in the online help or the summit.factory manual for details of the supported keyboard shortcuts

Object Colouring

If an Object such as a Wave or Patch is coloured blue, then it is being referenced by another Object.

If you right click over a blue Object you'll find a "List References" context menu, which will show you the Objects that reference this one.

Find/Find Next Category Tool Bar Buttons

If you hold the SHIFT key down whilst pressing the Find or Find Next tool bar button the operations performed change from:

Table Sorting

You can sort Tables by clicking in the Table Column headers.

For example, if you click in the Name Column then the Table will be sorted by Name

You can only DRAG COPY Certain Objects

If you are trying to perform a drag operation on certain data types and are wondering why summit.factory is not allowing you to perform the drag, try holding down the CTRL key during the drag to see if this is then allowed. Holding down the CTRL key turns the operation from a Drag Move operation to a Drag Copy operation.

Sometimes during a drag operation, the only sensible operation that can be undertaken is a copy operation, for example:

Copying/Moving Objects to a Different File

When you copy an Object to a different file then any Objects it references can also be copied at the same time.

For example of you move a Play List entry to a new File, then the referenced Patch is also copied (assuming they are present within the file):

I think you'll agree this is a cool feature!

This feature can be selectively turned off for different Object types if required within the Preferences Dialog.

Workspaces

summit.factory allows you to save a Window arrangement as a Workspace which you can then recall at a later date.