RV - How to customize the UI on Startup

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We would like these UI settings to set like this by default when RV opens:

  • Screening Room Browser - On

  • Screening Room Details Pane - Off

  • Color - No Conversion

  • Session Manager - On

  • Session Manager - Folders/Sources/Sequences/Layouts - Collapsed

  • Session Manager - Stacks Expanded

And what I’m wondering if and where it is possible to configure those via prefs/mu/python.

Thank you,

Patrick

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I did something similar to this recently. Not super simple but this is what I came up with.

I believe it used to be a recommendation that you copy files from scripts/ to your home directory, but I haven’t found much current documentation on this, so I opted for another method.

Here’s the general idea:

  • Create a simple Mu package (Python probably works too but I haven’t tested this) with a function that calls RV commands to open/close the desired panes and do other stuff you want (Chapter 10 - A Simple Package)
  • Add a function called theMode (I referenced PlugIns\Mu\shotgrid_review_app.mu)
  • When you launch RV, pass a Mu call to the -eval command line option (Command-Line Options). It should look something like my_package.theMode().my_function()

Regarding what you’re trying to do specifically:

  • You can use commands.sendInternalEvent to just call the keyboard shortcuts, e.g. opening the Screening Room Browser with commands.sendInternalEvent(“key-down--control-b")

  • “Screening Room Browser - On” and “Screening Room Details Pane - Off”

    • Send keydown event
    • Or call these functions from the shotgrid_review_app plugin :
      • shotgrid_review_app.theMode()._showTimeline(nil);
      • shotgrid_review_app.theMode().toggleDetailsPane(nil);
    • The “paneHidden” setting in the RV.ini seems to be related, but I haven’t gotten it to do what I expect it to do

  • Color - No Conversion

  • Session Manager - On

    • You can set show_session_manager=true in your RV.ini file under the “Tools” section

  • “Session Manager - Folders/Sources/Sequences/Layouts - Collapsed” & “Stacks Expanded”

    • If you save an RV session file with the Session Manager set up the way you want, opening that session file again will preserve that setup, except Sources are always expanded.
      • You could load this session file from the command line or once RV has launched
    • You can probably call some of the Mu code in the session_manager Mu plugin, but you would have to write some more complicated Mu code.