Home Studio 87 wrote: ↑18 Oct 2018 14:08
And a little request if it's possible : To have the DTouch Toolbar be "on the top" of the DTouch windows (Macros folder and Floating Mixer), but not "on the top" of the Cubase windows "always on the top" (plugins...).
Although you can fit this request in as low as two lines of text, unfortunately this is not actually a
little request 
TL;DR: This cannot be done in a way that helps your workflow in any meaningful way.
The quickest and most effective workaround against the DTouch Toolbar being
temporarily over some other window is to
minimize it to the Windows Taskbar, and then bring it back. This would likely mean that you should keep the Windows Taskbar "auto-hide" feature off, or you'll be forced to use your mouse for un-minimizing DTouch.
~ Detailed explanation ~
About having the DTouch Toolbar being over other DTouch windows: this can be done by acting on the "TOPMOST" button of the DTouch Floating Mixer, turning it off; and similarly for DTouch Folders, by acting on the "FOLDERS TOPMOST" Standard Function button, turning it off.
This has some drawbacks: now the Floating Mixer and DTouch Folders will go behind any other window that comes to front, and you will
never be able to bring them to the front, because they have a
non-activate behavior. This has been done in order to let you interact with Cubase/Nuendo, press a button on a DTouch Folder, and then go ahead interacting with Cubase/Nuendo (maybe typgin on the keyboard, without the need to bring the Cubase/Nuendo window to the front again. This non-activate behavior is essential for a good workflow which actually helps you be fast and productive, concentrating on your work instead of spending time bringing windows to the front.
Now, let's go ahead for the second part of the request: having the DTouch Toolbar behind the Cubase "always on the top" windows.
These windows, when you enable their "always on the top" attribute, have a strange behavior: once you are working with Cubase/Nuendo to the front, they are really "on the top"; however, once you bring another application to the front (think for example a Windows folder window, or the Calculator), they
completely disappear.
This is why we designed nearly all DTouch windows with a "non-activate" behavior: so that you can continue to work in Cubase without distractions because of these bring-the-window-to-the-front microtasks.
Now, let's imagine that we remove the topmost attribute from the DTouch Toolbar, which is the root DTouch window after you press RUN, the one from which you can launch all the others: this window will go behind Cubase/Nuendo, after you bring them to the front. So, what you'll see on the screen now, from back to the front, will be:
- DTouch Toolbar
- DTouch Folders / Floating Mixer
- Cubase/Nuendo
- Plugins
On a single screen, you get that DTouch and its windows are now to the back, and you will
never be able to bring them to the front, until you close the DTouch GUI and hit RUN again.
On a dual-screen configuration, if you dedicate one screen to Cubase and the other to Plugins + DTouch, this will be somewhat better.
However, you can see that the DTouch Toolbar is now
behind of the DTouch Folders and Floating Mixer, since these are child windows of the DTouch Toolbar, and so they opened
after the DTouch Toolbar. So, again, not what you want.
We got this request from many users, and we spent countless hours experimenting with different window options, but the conclusion is: DTouch has now the best compromise of functionalities that really help you with your workflow.
The typical usage is:
- Single-screen users will leave Floating Mixer and DTouch Folders "TOPMOST" attribute on, or they won't be able to see them because Cubase hides them behind its GUI
- Multi-screen users may turn off the Floating Mixer and/or DTouch Folders "TOPMOST" attribute, in order to allow Cubase plugins to be over them. In this case, the DTouch windows act just like a "wallpaper", which sits behind the Plugin windows.
