(posted on the SharpCap website, Jan 9, 2026)
Feature Request: Customizable Interface Modes
I think this should be a feature for every program.
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.
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:
1. All features fully on
2. Just the features I want.
3. Just the ones I want, and the ones I don’t want grayed out so I can see what’s there.
…with a way to toggle between the three states.
Some would keep it on State 2 for use, but toggle to State 3 when not pressed for time to learn more about the program.
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.
Scripting and Sequencer wouldn’t even show since I have everything under those turned off.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve never seen a program do this, and I imagine if you did it people might follow with other programs.
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.
Maybe call this feature “Selfish Interface UX”
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Michael W. Dean