Track Scroll to View / Scroll Into View help!

2024-01-18 21:42:22.584Z

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What do you expect to happen when you run the script/macro?

Hi! Many thanks in advance. My goal is to program a Macro that automatically does what happens in PT when I Right-Click on any track and then select "Scroll Into View" - which sets that selected track as the first fader on a control surface, and also scrolls it up to the first displayed track in the Edit or Mix window.

There's a Macro in the PT default package called Track Scroll to View which I thought might do this exact thing, but I can't get it to work. Any help would be immensely appreciated.

Are you seeing an error?

What happens when you run this script?

I'm using the Track Scroll to View macro - which I believe is from the default PT package - and I have it set to First Selected Track. When I run it however, nothing happens. I'm assuming it should do the same thing as when I right-click on a track and click Scroll Into View, but it's not actually doing anything as far as I can tell. No error message, just nothing.

How were you running this script?

I used a Stream Deck button

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//Macro converted to script


sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.trackScrollToView();

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Chris Shaw @Chris_Shaw

SoundFlow Ambassador

2024-01-19 16:20:52.026Z

trackScrollToView doesn't scroll the track to the top of the edit window - it just insures that the selected track is visible in the edit window by scrolling the selected track into view.

I use this to scroll the track to the top of the edit window and bank my S1.
It's a bit overkill (lots of error correction) but it will bank to the first selected track or the first track of multiple selected tracks. I have it assigned to one of my S1 color keys.

/**
* @param {string[] | string} trackName
*/
function csScrollToTrack(trackName) {
    var confirmationDialogWin = sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog;
    var scrollTrack = (typeof trackName == "object") ? trackName[0] : trackName;

    try {
        sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Track', 'Scroll to Track...'] });

        confirmationDialogWin.elementWaitFor({ timeout: 100 });

    } catch (err) {
        sf.keyboard.press({ keys: "n", repetitions: 2 });

        sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Track', 'Scroll to Track...'] });

        confirmationDialogWin.elementWaitFor({}, `Could not find Scroll to track Dialog`);
    }

    confirmationDialogWin.textFields.first.elementSetTextFieldWithAreaValue({
        value: scrollTrack,
        useMouseKeyboard: true
    });

    confirmationDialogWin.buttons.whoseTitle.is('OK').first.elementClick();

    confirmationDialogWin.elementWaitFor({ waitType: 'Disappear' });

    sf.ui.proTools.trackSelectByName({
        names: (typeof tracksToScrollTo == "object") ? tracksToScrollTo : [tracksToScrollTo]
    });
};

// MAIN //

if (sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackCount == 0) {
    sf.interaction.notify({ title: "Scroll to track", message: "No Tracks Selected" })
    throw 0
}
const tracksToScrollTo = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrackNames

csScrollToTrack(tracksToScrollTo);

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Chris Shaw @Chris_Shaw
- SoundFlow Ambassador
2024-01-19 16:27:18.360Z
also, be sure that "Scroll to Track" Banks Controllers is enabled in PT Preferences > Mixing > Controllers:
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Robert Mallory @Robert_Mallory

2024-01-19 16:25:11.412Z2024-01-19 19:52:03.951Z

Thanks so much Chris! I ended up finding some script elsewhere on the forum that also does the Scroll Into View trick. I can't take any credit for it but check it out if you like:


/**@param {string} trackName */
function ptScrollToTrack(trackName) {
    sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ['Track', 'Scroll to Track...'] });

    sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog.elementWaitFor();

    sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog.textFields.first.elementSetTextFieldWithAreaValue({
        value: trackName
    });

    sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog.buttons.whoseTitle.is('OK').first.elementClick();

    sf.ui.proTools.confirmationDialog.elementWaitFor({ waitType: 'Disappear' });
};

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();
sf.ui.proTools.mainWindow.invalidate();

// Get selected track name
const selectedTrackName = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.normalizedTrackName;




// Scroll to Track
ptScrollToTrack(selectedTrackName);

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Chris Shaw @Chris_Shaw
- SoundFlow Ambassador
2024-01-19 19:32:17.193Z
Glad you found a solution.
Just for future reference - this is how to quote code in the forum so that it is properly formated:
How to quote code in the SoundFlow forum.
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1. R Robert Mallory @Robert_Mallory
  2024-01-19 19:52:40.321Z
  Thanks for sharing Chris; fixed it!
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