Wish list: ability to scroll up and down palettes

[ronald]

permanent floating palettes are getting very large and occupying more and more screen real-estate. It would be nice to be able to display a palette as a single column that one can scroll up and down.
thank you

[Nr.5-need_input]

Hello @ronald

I don’t know if Peter will ever decide to implement this …

But there is actually a way you could do this - but it is quite some work …

All you need to know is how to create a palette and Scroll Areas with HTML, CSS & JavaScript and then find a way to combine these skills.

Since I am far away form an expert in doing this maybe Mike (@mrpasini) could help here the most I think - because he already has some Macros shared on the Forum and some starter code on creating Palettes by using only the Custom HTML Prompt Action.

I wish you good luck and of course a nice Christmas.

Stay safe.

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

[ronald]

thank you very much @Nr.5-need_input . My best wishes to you and your family.

[kevinb]

@ronald

permanent floating palettes are getting very large

Mine aren't, because I don't use them (I should try them again some time!). So, I am answering from a relatively uninformed perspective, but…

and occupying more and more screen real-estate

Could you not set the palette to include macros that bring up other palettes ("subpalettes")? Would that not be much more efficient than having one monster palette ("uberpalette") anyway?

[ronald]

@kevinb

Could you not set the palette to include macros that bring up other palettes ("subpalettes")? Would that not be much more efficient than having one monster palette ("uberpalette") anyway?

by experience, too many subpalettes becomes tedious and slows down the workflow. thank you for your post

[mrpasini]

Take a look at A Few Favorites Macro (v9.1), which is a Custom HTML prompt with several scrolling panels.

There are two interfaces provided in that macro. One is the prompt but the other is a scrolling list you can reduced to smaller lists using a code.

You can present macros in either of them using an HTML anchor () that references a kmtrigger://.

[ronald]

I will have a look immediately. Thank you very much !

[mrpasini]

BTW, Nige-S has explained the trigger anchor here:

How to edit a macro via a status menu item?

Sure. You could also use the keyboardmaestro://m=macro-UUID method that's documented here. In your OP you wanted to add a menu item. If you want to have the edit option from both the name and keystroke you could either Make a separate "editor" macro that opened your desired macro in the KM Editor, give it a hot key and include it in the Status menu Keep the single macro, included in the Status menu, and add an "If" action to open if for editing if a modifier key is down To include the opti…