Re: [Protux-devel] a generalized selection proposal

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Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2003 14:25 schrieb Luciano Giordana:
> Pretty cool, but I thought we would use the TOUCH action to eliminate
> clicks in the dialogs.
>
> TOUCH is pretty much the substitute of click, but using the keyboard, which
> is more comfortable.


oops, I think I forget to reply to this mail ..... 


yes, you are right ... touch action should be the jmb way to "click" , but I 
think multiple selections are needed in FS too and could be used to import 
several selected files to audio sources section, for example.

Also I did some typing errors below :-( , but it is already revised and added 
to SPEC file, so please refer to this.

greetings :-) and RFC
Reinhard



> But for selections, I believe this paradigm is pretty consistent.
>
> On Thursday 17 July 2003 08:44 am, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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