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Chapter 1 Using Logic 27
In many windows, you can hide and/or reveal further screen elements, such as the
Toolbox. These display options are always available from the View menu.
Concealing/Revealing the Local Menu Bar and Scroll Bars
Command-Option-click on the window title bar to toggle the display of the local menu
bar and scroll bars. This allows you configure small floating windows, which can be
stored as part of a Screenset.
Resizing the Parameters Area
You can alter the size of the entire Parameters area in the Arrange, Score, Hyper, and
Environment windows by moving your mouse cursor over the resize bars (the gray,
vertical bar with the two vertical lines) between the Parameters area and the column to
the right. As an example, the Arrange window’s Track List. The cursor appearance will
change, allowing you to click and drag horizontally. As you do so, the Parameters area
is resized, until the mouse button is released. The smallest “unit” of the resizing grid is
the width of a tool in the toolbox.
This facility makes reading parameter names and labels clearer.
Menu Handling
Given Logic’s extensive range of data manipulation functions, it would be impractical
to display all of them in the main menu bar. To ensure that only relevant functions are
available in each editor, a local menu system is employed.
Logic’s menus are accessed in the same way as in other applications: click-hold on the
menu title, move the mouse over the desired item, and release the mouse button. In
hierarchical menus, a right-pointing arrow is shown beside the item. If you highlight
such an item, a sub-menu will be displayed to the right. To select an item from this sub-
menu, move the mouse to the right, into the sub-menu, and then move vertically over
the desired item. Release the mouse button to activate the selected function.
Note: A short click on any of the local menus will result in the menu remaining open,
even after you have released the mouse button. A long click will result in the behavior
described above.
Window Types
There are two different types of windows in Logic: normal windows and float windows.
The contents of all windows that belong to the current song are always updated,
regardless of type.
Normal Windows
You can open as many normal windows as you want, including several of the same
type. Even though the contents of all windows are constantly updated, only one of the
windows ever has the status of being the “top”, or “active” window. This is the window
that is in the foreground when several normal windows overlap.