REW user interface settings

[peter08]

Started experimenting with REW (excellent application behaving like relatively 'mature' software) and have a quick, simple question about user interface options.

Can I set the Measure and RTA panels to NOT stay in the foreground (in front of everything else) during a run?

Just to explain - I'm trying to look at the contents of a real-time VST plugin window during a slow sweep (and also during RTA), but the VST window keeps being hidden behind the REW panels that grab the foreground.

Thanks
(Windows o/s)

 

[John Mulcahy]

The Measure dialog is modal so can't push that one back, but the RTA is a regular window, it doesn't try to stay on top of anything. For other tools like the signal generator and SPL meter there are View preferences to configure whether they are always-on-top or not.

 

[jtalden]

Peter,
Windows user?
I regularly use 'Always on Top" (for AutoHotkey) to force the REW overlay window to stay on top of the REW main window so I can easily adjust the impulse offset and see the impact on the relative phase with other measurements at the same time. I have no idea if this utility will work in your very different situation, but you may want to find out. Here is the first address that pops up into my browser regarding this utility when I search for it. There a many other positive reviews. There may also be similar utilities for other OS systems if you are not a windows user.

How To Keep a Window Always On Top in Windows 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpyqlTzq-ao No operating system has every feature, but there's one essential feature missing from Windows 10: the ability

www.techjunkie.com

 

[peter08]

Thanks for clarifying John.
Also thanks Jtalden for your suggestion. Yes I've seen there's a number of keep-on-top utilities avail for Windows, and also the option of connecting a second pc monitor to create more screen space so the Measure modal doesn't block out other stuff.
But I needed to check first here if there's not an easy REW setting to fix my problem.
Always trying to avoid adding yet another app/utility to the inexorably growing list of installed apps crowding my supposed to be "clean" audio laptop ....