Script UI Panels cropped - i.e. Rift

[jackthegiantslayer]

Would be great to have a wider choice than blinding white, neutral gray or super-contrast black. Can we get some happy medium option so the contrast is not so extreme? Can we also fix it so that older Script UI Panels don't get cropped and broken like the image attached? Both cannot be used because it crops the righthand action buttons off. This happens in both the current 25 and in the beta.

[scrozier]

Rift being broken is a big one. I use that one almost every project. 

[scrozier]

Why does Adobe ship these things half-cooked instead of bullet-proof? 

[jackthegiantslayer]

Yeah, and the developer has moved on and is no longer supporting either of them. AeScripts made a few suggestions, and I do use Keystone which can do much of what Rift can, but there is nothing that has the control and preset ability of Keysmith.

[Jessica McMillan]

Hello @jackthegiantslayer 

Unfortunatly, it looks like RIFT was designed with fixed widths for different elements which is now causing clipping due to the increased size of these UI elements. There isn't a good way to selectively fixup hard coded choices on our side without negatively effecting other plugins.

For the suggestions given by AeScripts, could you go into a bit more depth on the gap that is left with Rift no longer being developed and the other plugins that are availble?

As for the updated themes. Do you find that all current versions are too contrasty? Is there one whose contrast difference feels better than the others? For accessibility there are standard contrast threshold which some elements of our old UI did not meet and it is met now, but as you note, that does increase the contrast across the application. Would be interested to hear further feedback in this area and if different areas of the UI feel better or worse than others.

Thank you for taking the time to post and bring your concerns to us.

All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering

[Jessica McMillan]

Hello @scrozier and @jackthegiantslayer ,

Update from my previous post. You can launch these scripts with the file -> scripts -> run script file route to avoid the truncation on the right side. I originally thought this was due to fixed width on the plugin side, but maybe this is a width set on the AE side for loading automatically as a panel. We will open a bug to investigate.

All the best,
Jessica 
AE Engineering

[jefubbudu]

ostensibly, becuase the subscription model only requires there to be a changing product and general support to generate income. if you want rigorously tested software with a small set of post-launch hotfixes, you need to look into software sold as-is, or by version, like back in the Creative Suite (CS - CS6) days. those kinds of software live or die by the quality and relevance of their performance, reliability, and updates.

[Jessica McMillan]

Hello @jackthegiantslayer and @scrozier,

I have moved this thread to a new bug thread. This will allow us to track this to our internal ticket and give updates as that moves through our stages of investigation and hopefully development. Sorry that that process broke comment reply nesting for those messages migrated.

Thanks for reporting the issue. Hopefully it is something we can resolve on our side and isn't something specific to Rift. 

All the best,
Jessica
AE Engineering

[jackthegiantslayer]

Appreciate you making this a dedicated bug thread and likewise appreciate the workaround. Thankful its seems like a fixable bug. I did try reaching out to the original developer of Rift and Keysmith but it seems they have moved on! Would be awesome to have tools/panels like these folded into AE.