Hotkey To Temporarily Hide All Plugin Windows?

[tender nexus]

Is there a way to do this? It would be useful for accessing the device rack or other parts of the Bitwig GUI without having to close the plugin windows individually. I like having the plugins open and clicking on the edge of each plugin GUI to bring it to the top. If I could press a button that toggles them visible and invisible that would be nice.

[merry eagle]

2 things. First there is a shortcut you can define called "toggle expanded device view of selected device" that will bring up and down the window of a selected plugin. Second, the very lower righthand corner of the Bitwig window, there is this little "finger pointing" icon that will open up the project mappings panel. When it's open, you'll see all the buttons on your screen turn green to assign a project shortcut/mapping to them. Click on whatever plugins you want to open, and define a shortcut for them. I use this all the time to say pull up my master fader plugins regardless of what I'm doing otherwise in Bitwig.

You can change up the project mappings while you're working depending on what you need at whatever time.

[fathom sphinx]

i made a little extension to open up or close all the plugins on a channel.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=590095

[edgy coral]

Is it possible to bind/map this to keyboard?

[fathom sphinx]

its coming.

you could edit the script and bind it to a midi command.

i'm working on a universal script where you'll be able to do it

[edgy coral]

So cool! Can’t wait!
Thank you

[fathom sphinx]

any idea how deep you need the device tree to be?

[edgy coral]

I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand the question

[fathom sphinx]

see how many layers deep... The extension has to build a map in advance of the tree to observe them. but it gets out of hand for the api...#tracks * #devices x (#device_layers x #devicesperlayer)^depth. i think its like that.