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

[Martyn S. <mar...@go...>]

Hi

I have made the 'Merge' operation go into the undo history, so now you 
can undo them.

The problem of not accidentally clicking them is, I feel, overstated. 
You can select a region simply by starting not near a Merge line and 
click-dragging up to it, that is stop dragging at it, don't start at it. 
  Ok, so there are other cases where it get awkward but the 
functionality is basically sound.  You can't start a selection within a 
few px of a clip edge either because of Snap, but what can't you achieve 
with the right operations?

As for the crash, I can't reproduce it here - what steps do I need to take?

I note that 'Snap' does not take into account CutLines and suggest it's 
added to the list of 'Not aiming to do for 1.4.0', since it's a minority 
interest sort of thing, according to Marcus.

TTFN
Martyn

Gale Andrews wrote:
>     | 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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