Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] [linuxsampler-devel] QOL gigedit features?

[Christian S. <sch...@li...>]

On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 09:04:40 Andrew C wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was thinking of a few QOL features for gigedit:
> 
> 1. Multiple region selection (ctrl click for individual regions. shift
> click for 'from currently selected region to target region selection)

I have that on my TODO list for quite a while, but had no time for it yet. 
Because it actually requires a bunch of changes all over the gigedit code 
base. 

> 2. Move/delete selected regions via keyboard (ctrl+delete to delete, drag
> the regions around with the mouse?)

Moving one region by mouse is already implemented.

For deleting and moving by keyboard shortcut: we will see. I started to use as 
a general keyboard shortcut pattern the Alt key for actions on dimension 
region level, and the Ctrl key instead for actions on region level.

For example you can already navigate among regions with Ctrl + arrow 
left/right.

Likewise you can navigate among dimension region zones with Alt + arrow 
up/down/left/right. And you can even select multiple dimension region zones by 
using Alt + Shift + arrow up/down/left/right.

> 3. Shift click to select multiple instruments in the 'instruments' tab and
> using 'delete' to remove them all at once. I realise you can also ctrl
> click each instrument and then select 'remove' from the instrument menu, so
> I guess this is a shortcut :-)

Well, that is one of the oddities of Gtk I had to fight with. To delete 
multiple consecutive instruments simultaneously first select the first 
instrument in the list view, then press and hold shift, and then the trick: 
click right by mouse, not left! Then select "Remove" from the popup menu.

The problem is if you click left first, and then try right click, the multi 
selection is cleared. I know that behavior is a bit strange, but I remember I 
tried find a workaround for this behavior clash on Gtk level, but it did not 
work. So I was pragmatic and aborted my attempts on fixing that at that point, 
because the described right click trick does it for now.

CU
Christian