- Show Main Window
This menu item will display the main window (and a detached edit panel window). Clicking on the application's dock icon is equivalent unless an action pending window is being displayed.
- Contrast Adjustment
Mac OS Tahoe introduced a revamped UI for the OS. One complaint is that contrast has suffered. On Tahoe and later, you can control the contrast which is provided. On earlier versions of the OS, the settings are ignored. The settings are:
- None
No contrast is provided. All backgrounds are directly provided by the OS.
- Light
A light contrast is supplied. This is Yate's default value.
- Darker
A slightly darker contrast is supplied.
- Next
Cyclically toggles to the next contrast value.
These items can be assigned keyboard shortcuts.
- Window Panel Layout
The main window can contain three panels. The File Browser, the list of files and the edit panels. The submenu lets you choose your desired layout. Note that when choosing a layout, you are establishing the display order of all three panels, regardless as to them being displayed or not.
- Detach/Attach Edit Panels
The edit panels can be displayed in a separate window. Note that when detached and the window is closed, it can be restored by Window>Show Main Window or by clicking on the applications's dock icon. If the edit panels were detached when the batch processor is run, the window will be redisplayed when the process is terminated.
- Show/Hide File Browser
Either displays or hides the File Browser panel.
- Enable/Disable File Browser Information Area
Either enables or disables the File Browser Information Area. This item is only available if the File Browser is displayed. The information area can display audio information on a single selected file or a common default artwork item for all selected files. This item is only available if the File Browser is displayed. The Audio Information Panel auto-hides if the required criteria is not met. A popup version of the audio information panel can be displayed at any time by right clicking on a file in the file list area and selecting Audio Information from the context menu.
- Display Audio Info / Artwork in File Browser Information Area
`` Selects which content is displayed in the File Browser information area when displayed. This item is only available if the File Browser is displayed and the information area is not disabled.
When audio information is displayed and a Stem file (stem.mp4) is selected, double clicking in the panel will display the stem metadata. If a WAV file is selected and it has BEXT Metadata metadata, double clicking will display the metadata. A popup version of audio information panel can be displayed at any time by right clicking on a file and selecting Audio Information from the file list area's context menu or by selecting a single file and doing a View>Audio Information. The audio information is only displayed when a single audio file is selected in the file list.
When artwork is displayed it represents a common default artwork item in all selected files. The image has a context menu item named Get Info. Selecting the menu item will display a panel presenting the image's properties. The property panel can be dismissed by the Escape key. Double clicking on the image will display a full artwork edit panel. The choice of which panel to display is made as follows:
- If the Artwork edit panel is mapped to an edit panel button, it will be displayed.
- If a custom edit panel containing a full artwork display is mapped to an edit panel button, it will be displayed.
- The Artwork edit panel will be displayed on an empty edit panel button, if available.
- The Artwork edit panel will be displayed on the last edit panel button.
- Show/Hide Title Bar
Displays or hides the main window's title bar. Note that toolbar icon display modes other than Icon Only may only be available when the title bar is displayed.
Please read: Prior to Yate v10.0, the toolbar items were squished to the right when a title bar was displayed. Starting in v10.0 on macOS 11.0 or later, the toolbar is displayed beneath the title bar. In macOS Tahoe and later the title appears to the left of the window as opposed to being centered. If you want to display a title but you want to avoid the wasted vertical space, you can leave this setting disabled and add a Yate toolbar icon to the left of the toolbar. The Yate toolbar item has no associated function but will display Yate's version information as a tooltip.
- Toolbar Layouts
You can save multiple toolbar layouts. This item will display another menu which contains Manage... and a list of configured layouts. Manage allows you to create, remove and update different layouts. Clicking on a layout name, loads the toolbar items associated with the name.
- Customize Toolbar...
Used to customize the toolbar content. You can also right click on the main window's toolbar to do the same.
- UI Layouts...
You can save multiple UI layouts which can set a number of UI configuration items at a time. See UI Layout Manager for additional information.
