Re: [Audacity-quality] Selection inconsistency with snap-to
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From: Bill W. <bi...@go...> - 2010-01-20 23:13:12
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On 20-Jan-10, at 11:57 AM, Al Dimond wrote: > > I think I figured out why we saw such different behavior here. My > second > time-text control was displaying the end-time of the selection. If I > click the "Length" radio button I get behavior like what you were > seeing. I know why this is happening, and it shouldn't be that hard to > fix. I'll have something checked in soon. Wow. Who would have thought that the setting there would affect selection behaviour? Yes, I can confirm that all the bugs (except the one below) go away when you change this setting. >>> >>> A slightly different scenario: >>> 1) New project, generate tone >>> 2) Set Snap-to off >>> 3) Click at two arbitrary points and Edit > Split at each >>> 4) Set Snap-to On, units hh:mm:ss >>> 5) Click and drag from a point between the two split lines to the >>> right-hand split line >>> - Yellow snap-line lights up even though it is impossible to make >>> the selection end at that point because it does not line up with >>> the snap- to grid. >> >> This I can see reliably. If we're going to display the yellow >> "snap- to-edge" line then we should definitely allow the selection >> to snap to it. I bet if we disallowed snapping to edges with >> snap-to-grid enabled the other problems would go away. I'd rather >> snap to edges and the grid with snap-to-grid enabled, personally. >> > > I haven't quite decided what to do about this part, though. > IMO, if the user has turned Snap To On, then the snap-to-edge line should only appear if the edge corresponds to the grid, otherwise it should not appear. In other words "Snap To" trumps "snap-to-edge". -- Bill |