Option to keep switch layer timeline display ON even when on a sub-layer

[JoelMayer]

I hope i can explain this in some sort of coherent way.

So, this is how Moho currently works with Switch Layers:

- As long as the top folder is selected, you can scrub through the timeline and see the changing switches
- Once you're on a sub-layer (let's say a vector layer), the switching stays intact, but the viewport will always show you the selected layer

Now, this is really good to easily adjust things on frame 0 etc. without having to constantly adjust the switched drawing every time. However, here's the scenario a lot of us are using, where it sometimes gets a bit annoying:

- You have a frame-by-frame type of animation in a Switch
- You select a sublayer to create inbetweens, using the onion skin
- However, now, to really see it all work properly, you always have to select the switch folder again to see the previous/next key drawing with your adjusted inbetweens (which were made i.e. with point animation)

So, i'd really like it if there was just a checkbox in the Switch Layer settings "Keep timeline switches always visible". Then i could adjust individual sub-layers but when stepping through the keys, it would still show me the switching happening (the selected sub-layer could then be shown just as paths like in other similar scenarios currently).

This would speed up certain workflows a lot i feel.

I hope this makes sense

[SimplSam]

If this is what me thinks you mean, then you can do the following, but I think you already know that. So... Yes, an option to allow Content Editing on the Switch layer whilst in Switch mode would be beneficial.

1 - Change the 'Switch layer' to FBF mode (temporarily)
2 - Allows you to Do your Onion Skin / Vector edits - whilst on the Switch layer (you will need to move off/on the layer for the Points tools to appear)
3 - Change back to Switch mode when done

The https://mohoscripts.com/script/HS_ToggleFBF tool is good for the switching Switch/FBF mode.

[JoelMayer]

If this is what me thinks you mean, then you can do the following, but I think you already know that. So... Yes, an option to allow Content Editing on the Switch layer whilst in Switch mode would be beneficial.

1 - Change the 'Switch layer' to FBF mode (temporarily)
2 - Allows you to Do your Onion Skin / Vector edits - whilst on the Switch layer (you will need to move off/on the layer for the Points tools to appear)
3 - Change back to Switch mode when done

The https://mohoscripts.com/script/HS_ToggleFBF tool is good for the switching Switch/FBF mode.

Oh wow i didn't even know you could have a FBF layer open but that's a neat trick! I sometimes wonder if Switch/FBF layers shouldn't just be made one thing to be honest, right now it seems a bit arbitrary changing between them. But this works, thank you so much ^^

Maybe it would simply be nice if they'd let us expand the FBF layers again because honestly, this is my favorite way (draw on root layer and no vector interpolation happens, go to sub-layer and you can animate points.)

Yes, hayasidist's script is a godsend, using it all the time