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Preserving Placement and Settings
SynthEyes will normally reopen files with the same scene settings and window placements as when the file was originally saved. Placement data includes which floating windows are open, and their position whether open or not. SynthEyes files may have been saved from other users and machines, which requires some consideration.
What's a Setting? Normally when you change a tracker position or solver setting, an undo record is created, so that you can undo the operation. Other information, typically that affects only the display of the scene, such as the current frame number, tracker sorting mode, or scaling of curves in the graph editor, does not create undo records by design. The items that do not create undo records are the settings we're talking about here. Many are controlled by menu settings.
Different machines and users may frequently have different monitor configurations (even your own machine). SynthEyes will re-map windows from the previously saved configuration onto your current configuration so that all are displayed. Since dialogs don't scale, you may need to adjust the placements further after opening the file.
Preferences are not stored in SynthEyes files, so for example your user-interface color settings are not affected or overridden by files from other users. Settings which are initialized from preferences (for example Whole Affects Meshes ), and thereafter subject to change in SynthEyes as you work on the file, are saved and will be reloaded, potentially overriding what would be your normal preference.
Note : Because settings data don't constitute "changes" (do not create undo records), changing settings or window placements will not trigger the "Scene changed, save file?" dialog. So if you save a file, change the window placements, then exit, the changed window placements will be lost without
warning. Click Save if you want to preserve them. (For the same reason, desirably, moving windows won't trigger an auto-save or -increment.)
There is a potential hazard from the automatic restoration of settings: a file that you open may contain settings that you have forgotten or even are unaware of. For this reason, there are settings in the File Open area of the preferences that give you control over whether or not the settings are reloaded (see below). If you have a file that is behaving unexpectedly and that you suspect may have settings you don't understand, you can save it, set the preferences to not load settings, then reopen it. Alternatively you can override the current scene with your own preferences.
You can also save the current set of window placements and settings as an additional type of preferences: a favorite set of window configurations and settings. This can be dangerous, however, as it might obscure the effect of some preferences. If you've stored a scene's settings as preferences and want to change them, you should start SynthEyes, make the change, and then re-save the settings to preferences (don't try to do this from inside some scene you're working on).
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