Novice Questions

I've spent the last week learning SimHub and building out a collection of overlays to reproduce the GTR2 XD overlays in SimHub:

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sho-gtr2-xd-style-simhub-overlays.47212/

SimHub is quite amazing, thank you for all the effort, and I have registered my copy and I was happy and satisfied to do so.

I have some questions...

SimHub:

- Layouts can be set to "auto" start with SimHub (my SimHub starts on boot) but what I really want is to start a Layout when the game starts. Is that possible?

- Who/Where/How do we contact someone about built-in widgets, like the Leaderboard, if we find bugs?

- I see in Settings sometimes you can set a keyboard shortcut for some operations. What's the best shortcut combo for SimHub? Ctrl-Shift-... or Alt-Shift-... or ... Like what do most people use?

- Settings: Keyboard Shortcuts. Are these only single-key shortcuts and not multi-key shortcuts (ex. Alt-Shift-S) ?

Layouts:

- How can I get my Layout w/Overlays to automatically reload when I save a new Overlay change inside Dash Studio. Sometimes I think this is already working but sometimes not. What's a guaranteed way to make sure it works?

- How do I reload an entire Layout? Right now I have to click X in the Overlay Layout Editor window and then go back to SimHub and click Load again.

- I finally figured out after a long time that Layouts don't like Overlays being too far down the screen. Why is that? Because of the Windows Taskbar? The problem is in-game, with fullscreen windowed borderless mode, the Overlays at the bottom of the screen have a vertical margin that is much more than it needs to be. Is there any way around this?

- How do I reliably save Layout Overlay positions and sizes? Something keeps forgetting some of my Overlay sizes and/or positions, not sure which sometimes, it just forgets, even though I'm saving every single time. It's like SimHub doesn't "like" my size or position for a certain Overlay so it resets it back to some default or safe size/position.

Overlays:

- I get the feeling some attributes are dynamically created by SimHub by monitoring and calculating from actual game attributes. I feel like sometimes these get out of sync. For example, first time in cockpit in GTR2 everything works fine but if I choose to Restart a race it feels like things are breaking (ex. Leaderboard gets out of whack) I think because these dynamic attributes aren't resetting fully - like they're not aware of the race restarting. Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Is there some "hook" that I can use in my overlays to detect "full reset"?

- When I go to export some of my older Overlays they seem to retain a name / file name of the overlay I duplicated (?) when I first started making the Overlay. Is there a way to change that name? I've already updated the Title in Dash Studio for the Overlay.

- How can I easily export a Layout or multiple Overlays at once? Every time I make a release of my collection I have to export every Overlay I changed. Would be nice to have some easy multi-export.

- Speaking of easy multi-export, is there an easy multi-export for my usage of a Layout with multiple Overlays? Like, right now, anyone who uses my collection must import all the *.simhubdash files manually one-by-one. Would be nice if there were just one file to have them import.

- Live Track Map dynamically generates the map from the player going around the track but it often gets it wrong, missing entire sections (the road visually connects up with a different part of the track so it looks complete but it's wrong) and the Player and AI are shown to be traveling "off road" in those missed sections. Am I using it wrong? How do I get reliable maps?

- GTR2 has a Split (Sector) Gap which shows how far ahead/behind you were in the last split/sector. I couldn't find this attribute. Closest I could find was LastSectorTime. Is there a Split Gap attribute? I know there's a JS way to take that and figure out a Split Gap but as it deals with parsing a string I haven't gone that deep yet.

  ^ Solved! String.split() and some messy addition and concatenation for the win.

Dash Studio:

- I see you can add a JS file somehow but what about when you want to publish everything together. Is this another manual thing users will have to do, ie. import *.simhubdash files *and* copy over the js file to the right SimHub folder? Or is there some packaging thing I'm not aware of?

- In Dash Studio is there a Snap-to-Element mode so I can drag one element close to another and it will snap together? I know there's the grid but it snaps to the grid and not other elements.

Binding Javascript Coding:

- How do I make use of UserPreference that I see in some widget for my own overlays where I want to make something configurable and allow the user to just set something in the SimHub settings (ex. Leaderboard does this already) and then how do I use that in code?

Thanks for any help