Re: [Audacity-devel] editing markers - user comments/ suggestions

[Joshua H. <jha...@up...>]

* Dominic Mazzoni (do...@mi...) wrote:
> I think it would be really neat if labels were more like
> "guides" in Photoshop or the Gimp.  If you're not familiar
> with guides, open the Gimp, create a new image, and then
> click in the ruler and drag into the window.  A guide
> appears under the mouse - it's like a straight horizontal
> or vertical dotted line.  Everything you do snaps to the
> nearest guide from then on.  You can move a guide, or you
> can delete it by dragging it out of the window.
> 
> I'd love to have labels work the same way, though there
> should be more ways to create a label.  But I think
> it'd be great if labels worked like guides (i.e. they
> draw a straight line all the way through all of the
> tracks, and selections would automatically snap to
> the nearest label).  Then the actual text of the label
> could appear just under the ruler, instead of in a
> separate track.

This sounds like the scheme used by ProTools, based on the screenshot
Tony sent:

   http://www.reverberate.org/files/protoolsfree-stuff.png

I like this system.  However, this seems to be at odds with the plans
Shane has for enhancing the current label track system.  How shall we
proceed?

Joshua

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Joshua Haberman  <jo...@ha...>