{"id":2425,"date":"2026-01-10T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:13:00","slug":"programming-suggestion-be-able-to-hide-every-feature-not-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Programming suggestion; Be able to hide every feature not in use"},"content":{"rendered":"

(posted on the SharpCap website, Jan 9, 2026<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Feature Request: Customizable Interface Modes<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this should be a feature for every program.<\/p>\n

If I only use 1\/10th of 1 percent of the features in a program, I’d love to be able to hide all the ones I don’t use.<\/p>\n

Some would say that’s a bad idea because you’d never learn to do more things if you don’t stumble on them by having them enabled. But you could have it so you could have 3 settings:
\n1. All features fully on
\n2. Just the features I want.
\n3. Just the ones I want, and the ones I don’t want grayed out so I can see what’s there.<\/p>\n

…with a way to toggle between the three states.
\nSome would keep it on State 2 for use, but toggle to State 3 when not pressed for time to learn more about the program.<\/p>\n

When in State 2, just the features I want, the hidden ones would vanish and the ones I want would re-flow. So, for instance, if I click on Tools, I’d only see Histogram, Focus Assistant, and Seeing Monitor, since those are the only ones I have turned on.<\/p>\n

Scripting and Sequencer wouldn’t even show since I have everything under those turned off.<\/p>\n

Overall this would be a great feature since shooting at night with night vision colors enabled, or shooting Solar during the day, both make it hard to see the screen well.<\/p>\n

If there were only the few features we want at a given time, we wouldn’t have to fish through all of them to find them. Especially when shooting time is a valuable commodity for people who live where it’s cloudy a lot.<\/p>\n

Maybe we could have different profiles for this. Like I could set up one for Solar, and a different one with different options showing for Deep Space.<\/p>\n

I’ve never seen a program do this, and I imagine if you did it people might follow with other programs.<\/p>\n

Would be highly personalized and make any program work exactly as it would if each user programmed it only to solve the issues they have, not a one-size-fits-all solution.<\/p>\n

Maybe call this feature “Selfish Interface UX”
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\nMichael W. Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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