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Layer defaults & the cascade

Every layer carries a default cue style. Editing it offers to pull diverging cues back in line.

A layer is more than a colour. Each one carries a full set of cue-marker defaults — shape, type, connector, placement, colour — that every cue on the layer inherits unless that cue has been styled on its own. Get the layer right and the cues fall into line for free.

Where it lives

On the Layers tab, expand a layer and open its Cue marker style section. The controls are pre-filled from the layer's current defaults, so you're editing from the real values rather than blanks. Save writes the new defaults to the layer.

How inheritance works

A cue with no style of its own simply reads the layer's defaults — change the layer and that cue updates immediately, with nothing to re-apply. A cue you've styled individually (via its right-click menu) keeps its own look and ignores the layer until you reset it.

"Apply to existing cues?"

When you save a layer style, Cuelist counts the cues on that layer that carry their own custom style and asks what to do with them:

Apply — clears those cues' custom styles so they snap back to the layer like the rest.
Keep custom styles — leaves them diverging; only cues without an override follow the new default.

If no cue on the layer has a custom style, there's nothing to reconcile and the prompt doesn't appear.