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


From: ben levitt
Subject: Re: [Traverso-devel] Re: audio clip selection behavior
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:07:58 -0800

I tried out the new selection stuff tonight.  Very cool!

I do think that the simple Select command should be a toggle instead
of having separate add and remove commands.  I also think we should
add a Select All and Select None.  :)  But I'm still not sure how I
think these commands should be mapped to keys.

I think I like the feel of left mouse button to toggle clip selection.
 Especially since any accidental click would be reversible by just
clicking again, so there's a very low cost.

What do you think of trying out:

Toggle Selection    < LeftMouseButton >, < S >
Select All               < S A >
Select None          < S D >

Ben


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Remon Sijrier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Right.  :)  I understand that, and was suggesting that the restored
>> clips be added back into the sheet with the same selection status they
>> had when they were deleted.  My reasoning is that if you delete a
>> group of selected clips, and then undo it, you want to have the clips
>> added back to the selection group, because if the user now wants to
>> Redo the delete action by deleting one of the clips again, it will
>> only work if all the clips are once again selected.
>
> Ehm, why not just doing a CTRL Z then again ? Or hitting the undo button ;-)
> But it's not too hard to set the clips back selected after undo.
>
>> Yeah, I could see that being a problem.  But since in every other app,
>> selection is accomplished by left-clicking, I was thinking that we
>> should at least try it out to avoid confusion.  :)
>
> Sure
>
>> But we should look
>> at other options too.  What about changing the concept from selection
>> to something like creating a group?  Call the commands Add to Group,
>> Remove from Group, Add All to Group, or something similar...
>
> Makes a lot of sense I think
>
>>
>> Or since we want to optimize for selection of multiple clips, and
>> avoid accidentally clearing the selection, we could have left-click
>> toggle selection status of the clicked clip.  That way you wont clear
>> the whole selection with one accidental click...
>
> Indeed! This isn't the current behavior, but this might be better then the
> current one (where selecting an allready selected clip doesn't do anything)
>
>>
>> Just some ideas.  But hopefully tonight I can start playing with these
>> ideas instead of just talking about them!
>
> OK, good, I'm anxious waiting for the experience feedback ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Remon
>
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