Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Re: select all only selects notes...

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Saturday 07 June 2003 04:37 pm, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:57 am, Silvan wrote:
> > I noticed in the matrix view that slotSelectAll only selects events
> > if they're notes.

> The principle was that it shouldn't select anything you can't see --
> and also it seems inconsistent for Select All to include things that
> can't be selected in any other way -- that is, intuitively Select All
> should do the same thing as a mouse selection of the whole segment,
> which means it should only include visible items.

I do agree.

> I don't see why we shouldn't include controllers etc as well though,
> on the principle that ultimately they will be at least optionally
> visible in the control rulers too.  (I'm not sure how the GUI there
> will work -- should Select All visibly select the things in the

I agree here too.  I don't know what to expect though, any more than you do.

> I don't think the selection should ever include rests though.  (I bet
> you'd forgotten about rests.)

I had indeed.

I'll just hack my own copy to select everything (except rests) so I can test, 
but we'll save further consideration until a bit later.

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