Re: [Audacity-devel] Some new trackpanel interfaces

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Wow, I love the new resizing!  Great job!

>  * click-drag selection borders will allow you to adjust selection.

Right now the behavior is confusing when the "selection" is just
a cursor, i.e. when the left and right edges are the same point.

I think that maybe this feature should be disabled in that case.
The only other thing that seems intuitive to me is if it let
you slide the cursor around.

>  * Different cursors for left border and right border (they no longer 
> match the dragging tool cursor).

this is good.

>  * click-drag on track label bottom will vertically resize track.

good...

>  * If the track is a stereo track, click-drag on bottom edge will resize
> both tracks proportionally.

Actually, I think that this should be the default behavior for
resizing a stereo track, no matter where you grab it!  What do
you think?  In fact, it would also be cool if dragging the middle
line of a stereo track changed the relative sizes, keeping the
total of the two the same size.  This seems like a much more
logical way of working with stereo tracks.

>  Also, I removed the right-click behavior that I added a couple weeks
> ago (it extended the selection).  The selection extension is still
> available with shift-click, which is more consistent with standard
> shift-click behaviors.  Plus, it frees up right-click for other purposes
> (e.g., context menus or something). I think it would be a bad idea to
> get people accustomed to right-click selection, and then pull it out
> from under them in the future.  I'm regretting having ever used
> Goldwave, because it binds right-click to the right selection boundary,
> and left-click to the left selection boundary--I still get motor
> interference from that UI style.

I agree - and I like having the option of using right-click for
something else later.

- Dominic