Re: [Traverso-devel] Re: audio clip selection behavior

[Remon Sijrier]

Hi Ben,

> Remon - yay for all the changes!  I'll test them out here soon.  A few
> comments below:

:)

> > Sure, the entire selection is restored, I meant the restored selection
> > isn't set selected again.
>
> I think the selection state should be restored when undoing the
> deletion of selected tracks.  Because if you select some clips, and
> then Delete Clips, and then undo, then doing Delete Clips again should
> do the same thing it did before.  :)

Sure, it does so, it's just that the 'group of clips' that was removed isn't 
added again to the 'global selection'. So my question was more like: should 
we set the group selected again or not after the un-do action. The history 
stack doesn't know about selection at all, it just sees a RemoveClip action, 
which in turn operates on a ClipGroup.

> I actually agree that <left mouse button>  (but not [left mouse
> button]) should select a clip.  And Ctrl-<left mouse button> should
> add/remove the clip from the set of selected clips.  We could have
> other keys do that too, but we might as well make use of what users
> already expect where we can.  And I think this is definitely something
> that users will expect.  But I also agree that we should try it out
> and see how it feels.  :)  I think it will feel right, but I could
> imagine that it might make it harder to move a clip, or make it harder
> to keep a set of clips selected if an accidental click deselects
> everything...  It'll be a fun design issue to play with.


That's exactly what I thought, which is why I proposed the current behavior: 
no chance to accidentally deselect the whole selection!
On the other hand, the keymap is rather flexible, so adding more buttons that 
do the same is no problem, at least, mapping the left mouse button to yet 
some more functions.....

Anyways, I think that deselecting a clip can be as well mapped to the select 
clip key, as in 'toggle the clip selected on/off'. Remember that the need to 
select a clip is _always_ to select more then one to dispatch an action to 
multiple clips at once!

Have a nice day,

Remon