How to enable TRACK VIEW as default

[Cosmick]

I have a set of Process Icons that load when I start Pixinsight. Several have the option to "Track View" but even if I have it enabled when I save the process instance it does not stick and I have to re-enable it each time.
Is there any way to have "Track View" enabled as the default as I pretty much always have it turned on when using Levels, Curves and STF ?

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Mick,

The track view option cannot be enabled by default, nor can it be enabled through process icons. You can save a project, where the state of track view options for open tool windows is serialized and restored when you open the project.

[John_Gill]

mmmh, maybe it should go in the “Wish List”

John

[Cosmick]

The track view option cannot be enabled by default, nor can it be enabled through process icons.

OK. Any possibility of this being available in the future ?

You can save a project, where the state of track view options for open tool windows is serialized and restored when you open the project.

Thanks. I'll try this.

[Juan Conejero]

mmmh, maybe it should go in the “Wish List”

The track view option cannot be enabled by default, nor can it be enabled through process icons.

OK. Any possibility of this being available in the future ?

No, the Track View option cannot be enabled by default for several reasons.

Processes, process instances and images are completely independent and self-sufficient objects. This is a consequence of PixInsight's object-oriented design. The track view functionality is borderline in this context. It has been designed as a special working mode, available on some process interfaces as a convenience feature. It is not intended to be part of these processes, nor the way these processes work normally, and should only be used in special cases where an increased level of interaction with several images can be useful temporarily. On the other hand, the track view feature can have a non-negligible cost in terms of resource consumption, which would affect negatively the performance of the whole platform if it were enabled systematically.

[Cosmick]

No, the Track View option cannot be enabled by default for several reasons.

I suspected as much. Thanks for the explanation.