Noob question - Scratch pad?

Hey everyone,
I’m just getting familiar with GP, trying it out to see if it’s going to help me. There’s a lot to learn but I’m enjoying it so far.

Is there any way to put a scratchpad/note area on a panel? I find it really helpful to have some where to put stuff like “First chord Em” etc. I have managed it with a Tape Label widget, but I can only write on it from the Panel Edit view and it ignores text wrapping/new lines.

Thank you :smile:

Why can’t you just use a regular Text Label?

It doesn’t explicitly support wrapping but if you stretch the width appropriately, words that don’t fit on one line will wrap

Using scripting you can also use heredoc strings. These can contain a ‘line feed’, giving you some extra control to format the text label.

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Thanks DHJ. Yeah, that works, though I need to put the info in in the panel edit window. I was wondering if there was a widget that allowed for double clicking and entering info from the setlists page. I’m just getting started so haven’t explored all the options yet.
Thanks for your help

Thanks @Frank1119. I’ve yet to get familiar with the scripting thing. I’ll have a look at it soon :slight_smile:

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No, sorry – the point of setlists is to access and use preconfigured rackspaces in songs - not to edit them

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Good to know :+1:

You can use a vst-notepad like the one you can find on

First of all set “Auto open/close plugin editors” to active under Display settings.

Simply load the notepad plugin into a rackspace (the one that is used in your song where you wish to add comments!) and leave the window opened when you save your rackspace.
This will make sure it reopens everytime you activate this rackspace.

Now when you select the song/songpart which uses the rackspace the notepad will popup at its last position.
You can edit the note at any time by clicking into the window and typing…
setlist-view-ani

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GP has its own internal Comments plugin as well.

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Correct, but unfortunately you cannot influence text size within it (or at least i didn’t find out howto),
but if this is no problem you can use it as well.

You can find it under Internal Plugins → Miscellaneous