[Protux-devel] a generalized selection proposal

[Reinhard Amersberger]

Hi folks :-)

since Luciano started with the region stuff, and since we still have to click 
in the FS dialog ;-) , I thought about how to select multiple things in protux, 
so here comes the result ... ;-)

it is still based on "S" as the center key for ALL select actions and a little 
bit affected by filter controller actions and is maybe just an enhancement of 
the basic principle: "select a thing first to perform an action on it":

(for general ... a thing could be a clip, track, node, folder in FS, ... )



^X<S>  -->  select just one thing; when another thing is already selected then 
it will be de-selected 

^X<AS>  --> add new thing to existing selection

^X<SD>  --> remove thing from existing selection

^X<<SD>>  --> select all

^X<<AS>>  --> de-select all

^X[S]+UDLR  -->  make a new (multiple) selection by drawing a rectangle above 
all things user want to be selected

^X[AS]+UDLR  -->  add new thing(s) to existing selection by drawing a ...

^X[SD]+UDLR  -->  remove thing(s) from existing selection by drawing a ...

and finally ...

^X<<S>>  -->   open "remove thing(s) from existing selection dialog/window" and 
use the same selection procedure also inside this dialog/window.



So the benefit of this procedure could be, that it could be used in all other 
dialogs too, just like <FS>, for example, as a general select paradigm to 
eliminate really ALL clicks in protux ;-)

just an idea .... RFC
Reinhard