Mixer strip width customization

motorizedmoose · March 15, 2024, 8:29pm

Hi dear Ardour community,

I’m looking at a way to customize (adjust) the mixer’s strips width. Right now, the strips are a little narrower than the physical strips on my FP8.

To provide a bit of context, I built a mixer/workstation based on Ardour and I’m looking at a way to align (as much as possible, doesn’t have to be perfect when scrolling through the strips) the strips with my controller.

I’ve looked a bit through this forum, the documentation and the only way of achieving this right now is by adjusting the UI font scaling, but I don’t want to “zoom” the mixer interface, just want the strips a bit wider (doesn’t even have to be adjustable via a slider in the preferences, could be a value in a file).

Thinking a bit further, I’m wondering if the themes could be an option. Is it possible to set the strips width via a theme ?

Don’t think it’s the way to go, but, is is something that could be set via a lua script ?

If neither of those 2 previous points can be leveraged, I would consider looking into the codebase to propose a pull request with a slider in the preference to adjust the strips width (if it’s something that can be considered as valuable by the community). (yeah, I know, I mention I don’t need a slider, but if it comes to a contribution, it should at least be user friendly and properly integrated in Ardour)

Thanks for your help and thoughts.

x42 · March 15, 2024, 8:35pm

That is a very nice setup you have there!

No, currently the value is set when building Ardour from source:

github.com

Ardour/ardour/blob/52cce5adc6b2afa772826eff8ea92379ae09a9dd/gtk2_ardour/mixer_strip.cc#L863


      
          
          
	switch (w) {
          	case Wide:
          
          
		if (show_sends_button)  {
          			show_sends_button->set_text (_("Show Sends"));
          		}
          
          
		{
          			// panners expect an even number of horiz. pixels
          			int width = rintf (max (110.f * scale, gpm.get_gm_width() + 10.f * scale)) + 1;
          			width &= ~1;
          			set_size_request (width, -1);
          		}
          		break;
          
          
	case Narrow:
          
          
		if (show_sends_button) {
          			show_sends_button->set_text (_("Show"));
          		}

motorizedmoose · March 15, 2024, 10:33pm

Thanks Robin for your quick reply.
And thanks for pointing me out directly to where it’s managed. I’ll look into the best way to add an adjustable width and suggest a PR then.

system · April 12, 2024, 10:33pm

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