From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2003-04-27 13:25:31
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On Sunday 27 April 2003 15:04, Chris Cannam wrote: > The usual way rectangular selection works in Rosegarden's matrix and > segment canvases is that as you drag a rectangle, notes or segments > become selected as soon as your rectangle first reaches them. This > is what we refer to as greedy mode. Initially it was the only mode > implemented, and in Rich's and my view it's far more useful in > Rosegarden than the opposite behaviour, that of only selecting a note > or segment when the whole thing is enclosed by the selection > rectangle, simply because the latter makes it so difficult to select > large objects (and the objects are large more often than not). > > Guillaume disagreed with us on the grounds that the greedy behaviour > is inconsistent with other applications, and so he implemented > non-greedy behaviour as an option. That's funny, I remembered it the opposite (that I implemented the greedy behavior), but looking at the logs you're right, and indeed I don't see much of a point in that option now... I'll remove it. -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org |