Re: [Audacity-devel] Track selection

[David R. S. <dav...@sh...>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

>>  Martyn:As you say, shift+rightarrow extends the selection but what if 
I want to
>>  reduce the selection?  There does not appear to be a key combination for
>>  that.  Should there be?
>
Dominic: > That's what the control-shift combinations do. 
control+shift+rightarrow 
> reduces the left edge of the selection, control+shift+leftarrow reduces the 
> right edge.  I don't think that either direction is "intuitive" but once you 
> figure it out it's easy to get used to.

David: I like using mnemonics - CONTRol is very close to CONTRact, adding 
the shift+left/right arrows gives the direction of CONTRaction.
>
Martyn: >>  What do you mean by a track with focus, exactly?  I think 
Leland  had a
>>  good idea about that but he's currently not around.
>
Dominic: > Well, in the source code there's actually a concept of a 
focused track, but 
> it's not something that shows visibly on the screen.  The "focused track" is 
> sort of a keyboard-only replacement for the idea of clicking on one 
> particular track to do something, which wouldn't normally be possible via the 
> keyboard if more than one track is selected.   Without the idea of a focused 
> track, there'd be no way to do discontiguous selections.

David: If I can't 'focus' on a particular track with my screen reader, I 
cannot select any part of it. Unless I use control+a, but that selects 
_all_ tracks, from start to end.

David