Re: [Audacity-quality] Quick play

[Bill W. <bi...@go...>]

> On 2018/10/25, at 9:11 AM, David Bailes <drb...@gm...> wrote:
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> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 19:55, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go... <mailto:bi...@go...>> wrote:
> Two things …
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> 1) Quick play set cursor (enhancement)
> The quick play context menu has an option “enable dragging selection”. Similarly I’d like to also see “enable setting cursor” which would set the editing / play cursor position to the quick-play position. I don’t see any down side to this. The use case is a user using quick play to find the point where they want to edit. You may reply that the user could press “X” to stop and set the cursor, but read on …
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> 2) “Play / Stop and Set Cursor” (X shortcut) is inconsistent when used with quick play.
> a) Click in the waveform to set the cursor somewhere, or drag a selection
>     Click in the timeline to the left of the cursor / selection
>     Press “X” to stop and set cursor
>     Result: a selection is created from the original cursor position (or right end of original selection) to the stopped cursor position
> b) Click in the waveform to set the cursor somewhere, or drag a selection
>     Click in the timeline to the right of the cursor
>     Press “X” to stop and set cursor
>     Result: the play/editing cursor is set to the stopped cursor position
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> I’m not sure which behaviour is “correct” but it seems to me they should be consistent; either make a selection or set the cursor position.
> 
> It could be argued that both are correct. In both cases, pressing X is setting the start of the selection. (In the second case, the end of selection is also adjusted so that it is not less than the start of the selection.)
> It could be changed so that pressing X set both the start and end of the selection, but I think that might reduce it's usefulness. Currently, if there is a selected time range, you can use X during playback to adjust the start of the selection. 

OK, I can see your point. Pressing X to stop playback sets the start of the selection (if a selection exists) or sets the cursor position if no selection exists. So the behaviour is logical. Using X to expand or contract a selection is a use case I hadn’t considered.

— Bill

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