Re: [Audacity-devel] Problem with Time Shift tool when zoomed in

[Steve <ste...@gm...>]

On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 23:34 +0100, Gale Andrews wrote:
> > > I'd say it's less bad than the unpredictable behaviour 
> > > when trying to drag clips apart with Time Shift Tool 
> > > (you never really know how many attempts that is going
> > > to take). That is only a  P4 at the moment, attached to 
> > > "Selection bugs when zoomed in" because it seems 
> > > exactly where you click may determine if you are going
> > > to be able to drag or not. 
> > 
> > Oh yes, that is certainly an annoying issue when a project involves
> a
> > lot of cutting and dragging, but at least there is an easy
> workaround of
> > re-selecting the clip before moving it.
> 
> Does that work if the clip you want to drag away is attached to 
> the right edge of the other clip? The only way I know to reliably 
> drag the right-hand clip away is to drag the left-hand one away 
> first.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Gale 

I should have said DE-select the clip before moving it.
If you've just split a track then you will already have either the
Selection tool or the Multi tool, so just click anywhere on the track
before switching to the Time Shift tool then whichever bit you click on
is the bit that moves.

Steve