Re: [Audacity-quality] How do I disable the scrubbing bar?

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

Paul wrote:
>I read what you wrote on the other thread.  Now I get it -- you don't want
the down pointing triangle, instead you want two buttons always >displayed,
which change between raised and sunken appearance, like Mute and Solo.

Yepper, two buttons like Mute and Solo - but which green traingle, I don't
recal asking to remove anything like that :-//


>Details.  Where exactly should they be drawn, as the ruler changes
height.  When the scrub bar is hidden, is there enough height to >draw the
two buttons legibly?  Side by side perhaps.  Do they  grow and shrink
vertically or stay in the pale gray area, moving up and >down as the scrub
bar shows and hides?  Either might look odd, but putting the scrub bar
below the numbers could be a fix.

I was thinking side by side, height of the Timeline, in the Timeline above
the Track Control Panel(s) - no grwing and shrinking please, just some
simple stable buttons woth tooltips :-))

>Is there some likely future enhancement making a third useful mode in the
ruler?  (I can't guess what just now.)  Then the buttons would >get more
crowded.

Possibly - but we could cross that bridge if and when we come to it ;-))

Cheers,
Peter.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Peter Sampson <
>> pet...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> Paul wrote:
>>> >In fact, you can click with either button.  Yes, interim.  I want to
>>> paint a button there for left click only.
>>>
>>> Yes indeed, and as I wrote on the Scrubbing Phase-2 thread this morning
>>> I'd also like to see
>>> a "Quick-Play" button painted there too - so that we can turn either or
>>> both of theme on or
>>> off by using the buttons.
>>>
>>> And the buttons can have useful hovertext toltips (which by preference
>>> would be on/off state
>>> dependent).
>>>
>>>
>>> >Debatable is whether existing context menu items should move to that
>>> menu.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking probalby not - a button is a button, is a button - and is
>>> probably best left plainly so.
>>>
>>
>> Are menu items correctly called "buttons?"  I propose just one
>> down-pointing triangle button that opens a menu that has at least two
>> checkmark items that can enable and disable scrubbing and quick play.
>>
>> So at least the button in the context menu that enables and disables
>> quick play becomes redundant.
>>
>> PRL
>>
>
> I read what you wrote on the other thread.  Now I get it -- you don't want
> the down pointing triangle, instead you want two buttons always displayed,
> which change between raised and sunken appearance, like Mute and Solo.
>
> Details.  Where exactly should they be drawn, as the ruler changes
> height.  When the scrub bar is hidden, is there enough height to draw the
> two buttons legibly?  Side by side perhaps.  Do they  grow and shrink
> vertically or stay in the pale gray area, moving up and down as the scrub
> bar shows and hides?  Either might look odd, but putting the scrub bar
> below the numbers could be a fix.
>
> Is there some likely future enhancement making a third useful mode in the
> ruler?  (I can't guess what just now.)  Then the buttons would get more
> crowded.
>
> Maybe there is room also to make a small triangle button right of each of
> the pushbuttons, opening a drop-down menu with options specific to
> scrubbing or to quick play.  That avoids one long menu for everything in
> the ruler.  That makes options discoverable.  That need not supplant the
> right click, but simply give you another way to discover the menu.
>
> PRL
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In fact, you can click with either button.  Yes, interim.  I want to
>>>> paint a button there for left click only.  Debatable is whether existing
>>>> context menu items should move to that menu.
>>>>
>>>> PRL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Peter Sampson <
>>>> pet...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For now just right-click in the Timeline area above the Track Control
>>>>> Panels
>>>>> and then disable it.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is just an interrim solution - proper solutions are being
>>>>> discussed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Steve the Fiddle <
>>>>> ste...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> When working on large multi-track projects I want to maximise the
>>>>>> amount of vertical track space. The available space is reduced by the
>>>>>> new "scrub bar" so I'd like to disable / hide it. How do I do that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
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