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PixInsight => General => Topic started by: MineralMike on 2019 December 22 07:54:12

Title: Blink instance question
Post by: MineralMike on 2019 December 22 07:54:12

My workspace contains minimized instances of processes that have their parameters set as normally used. I.e., to create these, I opened a process from the menu, made my settings, than dragged the new Instance triangle, named it as desired, and closed the menu process.

In use, I double-click an icon, execute the process, then click the [X] button to close the process. The icon remains on my workspace.

But Blink is different. There is no New Instance triangle, so the only way I can have a Blink icon is to shade it.

Oops! After using Blink, I forget it needs to be shaded, so I click [X], which closes it, and Blink is gone from my workspace.

Questions:

• Why doesn't Blink have a New Instance triangle?
• Is there a way to create a new Blink instance that will remain on my workspace after I [X] out of the process?
• What am I missing?

Thanks for all information and insights.

--- Mike