Re: [Audacity-devel] Policy on removing clip boundaries and cut lines

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

    | From Markus Meyer <me...@me...> 
    | Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:53:27 +0200
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Policy on removing clip boundaries and cut lines
    | I agree that both the crashes and the missing undo history are bugs that
    | should be fixed. As for accidentially clicking a cut line: maybe we can
    | show a popup-menu when the cut line is first clicked that shows the two
    | entries "Restore Cut" and "Merge". Clicking outside the popup-menu would
    | then do nothing.

Hi Markus

Do you mean when you first click a cut line in a session, or whenever you first
click a particular cut line? Would not the menu just be Undo Cut (yes / no)? 
i.e. did you really want to remove this cut line when you clicked on it?  

While accidentally clicking on cut lines and clip boundaries is a problem I was
equally concerned with the fact that if you want to deliberately click on them
without removing them e.g. to create a selection area, you can't. This seems
wrong to me. How about double-click on a line removes it, single click does
not? This means you can draw a selection starting at the line, and are less 
likely to remove the line accidentally.          

I may well have missed the discussion somewhere due to not having time, 
so apologies, but I noticed in the source code that now pasting into a track 
does not now create clip boundaries, whereas it does in the released 1.3.3.
Was this a conscious decision? Might it not be useful in some cases and 
possibly allowable via a Preference? Would (double-)clicking to remove the
boundaries simply rejoin the track or undo the paste? Of course the crash 
you get by clicking the lines would have to be fixed too. 


Gale 
   




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