Logic 2 - Ideas and Feature Requests

Manage Presets through OS window rather than in-App

• Open
• Subscribe

---

Tim

See: discuss.saleae.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-a-preset-and-a-setup-if-any/772/8

Some of us would love presets to be “setup files” and managed through a standard OS file management dialog.

It feels to me kinda hinky that I have to “export” a preset to get a settings file. It didn’t help that it took a minute or two to find the “Export” menu entry the first tiime.

Export and Import both use an OS dialog for doing business so what I want is there, but with a bunch of overhead. Save and Load settings menu entries in the file menu would take me straight to where I want to be and saves Saleae’s devs creating and maintaining a dialog. Is there something technical under the hood I’m missing going on here?

Usual grump aside, the new dialog works well enough, although it’s somewhat slow opening (2 - 3 seconds). The ‘“name” already exists. …’ dialog could use a “Cancel, discard” button and the “No” button could change to “No, rename”. It’s easy to accidentally create a new duplicate name because the visible part of the list is short and only the top of the list can be seen when a new preset is being created.

The check at new preset crate time avoids creating new presets with the same name, but it is possible to generate presets with the same name during import.

There is no way to manage presets which means presets for one project are mixed up with presets for other projects. That can be sorta fixed by using a project prefix as part of the preset name, but that doesn’t scale well given the limited size of the preset list before scrolling is needed. Making the dialog bigger isn’t really a fix for that.

Yup, there are missing things that an OS dialog would cover.