Keeping Mix and Edit windows open

[Mike62858]

Hello,
When I have the Edit window open, and I want the Mix window open I click
-> Window
-> Mix
If I click anywhere in the Edit window the the Mix window disapears until I bring it back up. How can I keep the Mix window visible as I switch between the 2?
Thanks
Mike

[spkguitar]

How can I keep the Mix window visible as I switch between the 2?

Use two monitors.

Joking aside, you would have to size the windows appropriately for them to both stay on the screen.
You can also toggle between them quickly using the ctrl + = (press the ctrl and = key at the same time)

[GTBannah]

Cakewalk had a feature called "auto-activate" but as soon as they beacme Sonar, they dumped it.

As long as there was a piece of a window peepeng oput from anywhere, you placed the mouse and "Voila!", the window became active.

Maybe the dev-team could consider this?

[jfitz]

I think Ctrl+= is better because you keep the windows maximized and just quickly toggle between the two.
Screen space is pretty precious in pro tools, I don't see why one would want either of the windows minimized in any way, just to click and activate.

two best solutions are ctrl+= or to get dual monitors. Even with dual monitors, I sometimes stretch both windows and still toggle to see as much as possible.

[spkguitar]

I agree, jfitz; ctrl+= is the easiest way, and once you get used to doing it, it gets to be second nature. Kind of like ctrl+s