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[FEATURE] Add Quicksave / Quickload buttons for presets #83
Description
Please confirm the following points:
- This feature request is NOT for the Android apps in the Play Store
- I have searched the project page to check if a similar request was already made
Application or Project
projectM Standalone SDL2 Frontend (includes the Steam app)
Is Your Enhancement Related to a Problem?
The problem is, every time you find a good preset you like, it's a pain to come back to it at a later point. If emulators and games can have quicksave and quickload buttons, why can we?
Your Suggested Enhancement
My suggestion is taking the top row number keys with a modifier to save, and another modifier to recover. Have this auto save to a config file for easy recovery. Bonus would be a key sequence that could show you a list of the saves.
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StephanieSunshine commentedon Jun 11, 2024
After giving this a little more thought, I propose using ',' to load '.' to save, and '/' to list. I just checked to see if projectM SDL2 had anything bound to these keys and it seems they are available.
kblaschke commentedon Jun 11, 2024
Sounds rather like a kind of favorites/bookmark feature, which is definitely a good idea. We'll consider this after implementing the preset playlist/selection features!
kblaschke commentedon Oct 7, 2025
Discussion on Discord has brought this topic up again. Once the preset playlist editor is implemented, a new shortcut (
Ctrl-fwas suggested) could be used to add a preset to a configurable favorites playlist.In addition to this, the app will also gain the ability to "export" a playlist as files, copying all presets in the given playlist into the target directory no matter where they are located.
kblaschke commentedon Oct 5, 2026
I've created a larger issue #138 which includes these quickload/quicksave functionality as part of the playlist editor implementation.