Settings dialog

The dialog allows you to adjust the majority of global settings for Helgobox and its contained products. You can open it by pressing the settings button in the Title bar.

settings

For a description of the product-specific settings, see:

Appearance

Overall size

Overall size

Adjust the overall size of the user interface, including the font size.

Roundness

Roundness

Choose whether to round off corners of various user interface elements and how much.

For Playtime users
If you want slot cells with rounded corners, play with the Cell color position setting!

Prefer tidy appearance

Prefer tidy appearance

If enabled, the inspector will show dropdown menus even if if they present just a handful of options. This looks more tidy but you will need two mouse clicks to choose an option.

If disabled, it will show all options as buttons instead.

Display development status hints

Display development status hints

If enabled, the inspector will display even settings that are not available yet and it will show small annotations about the development state of a feature.

Display tooltip if help panel hidden

Display tooltip if help panel hidden

If enabled and the help panel in the bottom right corner is not visible, a tooltip will be showed instead.

Display license info

Display license info

If enabled, the licensee name will be displayed in the window title bar. This only affects commercial Helgobox products, such as Playtime.

Prefer native popup menus (experimental)

Prefer native popup menus (experimental)

If enabled, dropdown and right-click menus will be rendered using your system’s native user interface component.

Development status: Feedback wanted!

This doesn’t work particular well at the moment. On Windows, it has caused crashes in the past.

Theme mode

Theme mode

Switches between dark, light, and automatic theme modes. In automatic mode, the app will follow your system’s theme settings.

Use context coloring

Use context coloring

If enabled, some inspector panels will get a special background color that reflects their purpose, such as red for recording and green for playback. This makes it easier to distinguish between the purpose of different settings but it may not go so well with the color design of your theme.

Use host colors (experimental)

Use host colors (experimental)

Borrows some color from the REAPER theme.

Contrast

Contrast

Choose between multiple color variations that influence the perceived contrast of the app’s appearance.

Custom color rendering

Custom color rendering

Choose how to render user-defined colors, such as for tracks and clips.

Color scheme

Color scheme

Choose the prominent color for the user interface.

Title bar

Dim opacity

Dim opacity

Adjust how much to dim the Helgobox app window when pressing the dim button.

Shortcuts

Hide window when escape pressed

Hide window when escape pressed

If enabled, pressing escape if no dialog is open will hide the window.

This will only have an effect when running embedded within REAPER.