[Audacity-devel] Re: New Label Track Features

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

Shane Mueller wrote:

> a "transcription" toolbar....will provide functions that help
> you identify and select individual words, and easily create labels from
> them.  The "Add label at selection" menu option will be accessible via a
> button there,

Transcription toolbar - nice idea.

Add label can already be done without the menu using a little known 
feature (which was there before my changes) - click a selection on the 
label track and just start typing, and a label will appear.  It might be 
worth alerting the user to this possibility in some way visually, as it's 
not very 'discoverable' as things stand.  Unfortunately I can't see a 
good way to alert the user at the moment.  If we show a blank label 
as soon as there is a selection on the label track, I think it would be 
too intrusive.  Any bright ideas as to how to make this 'discoverable'?  

Whilst we're at it, 'Silence' also deletes a label, if the selection
includes part of it, which perhaps has some relevance to the great 
silence/delete/cut debate :-)

--James