Re: [Audacity-quality] Align Tracks Together (with labels)
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From: David B. <drb...@go...> - 2013-05-22 11:59:03
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>wrote: > On 21 May 2013 10:03, David Bailes <drb...@go...> wrote: > > > > > Hi Gale, I appear to be loosing my marbles. I misunderstood your reply to > > robbie on the audacity4blind mailing list in march 2012 when he was > asking > > whether "align with cursor" was available in the exported xml file for > > keyboard shortcuts. It isn't, but all the align commands can be set in > the > > keyboard category of preferences - I hadn't realised this. One minor > problem > > is that the two sets of commands (with or without moving the cursor) have > > the same names, which is confusing. > > They both use the same sub-menu ("Align Together" is excluded from the > "and Move Cursor" menu). > > If we changed this then the "and Move" menu would need its own sub > menu rather than reusing the "Align Tracks" sub menu which makes the > code a bit bulkier, is more to maintain, but the biggest issue is that > different names would need to be given to the functions. > I think that it's ok for the commands in the two sub-menus to have the same labels. I think that the confusion in the keyboad prefs should be sorted out there (at some point). Also, if on the align tracks menu, both align to/with/from(!) cursor and align end to end both had predefined shortcuts, then not many people would need to assign these in keyboard prefs anyway. There seems to be a couple of issues about shortcuts in the align tracks sub-menu: 1. If I assign a keyboard shortcut in preferences, the shortcut works, but doesn't show up after the command in the sub-menu. Assigning a shortcut for a command in the effects menu shows up in the menu, but I don't know why. 2. I'm not sure what code is needed to set up predefined shortcuts in the align tracks sub-menu. I had a go using SetKeyFromName, using the name "Align:Align with &Cursor" for the command (this is without your patch applied) and had no joy. David. |