[Qtractor-devel] Playhead click moving

[Philip Y. <ph...@gn...>]

Hi everyone!

It's cold out there and the new Qtractor 0.7.2 is fresh out :) life is 
peachy

I have my empty session in front of me, and something strikes me.
When I click in the timeline (I have two tracks, and nothing in it) 
nothing happens.
That must be one of the reasons why the new users that I saw approaching 
it (not that many but still quite a few) found it "user hostile" (my 
daughter texted me that /this very morning///, adding that "the 
interface is even worse than cubase's" das my girl :) I think this is 
excessive to say the least) sometimes, it does nothing when you expect 
it to do something.
Clicking in the timeline on an empty zone of a track could position the 
playhead at that location. Heck, even (optionally) in a non-empty zone, 
when selecting a clip, I can see how some ppl would use it like that. I 
think I would.
At the very least, clicking in the empty zone below the track could do 
that, instead of doing nothing.

I humbly thing it would go a long way towards peace, harmony and 
downright happiness :)

Maybe with the mid... Hey, the middle button /does/ something! It 
positions the two markers... Wow... All across the timeline window... 
Countless moons and I didn't know that... Damned, that kinda ruins my 
previous rambling, well, at least half of it. Now, Qtractor does 
something. And let me tell you, it is a /very/ nice feeling, moving the 
markers around with a single click. Oh, and it doesn't mess with an 
existing loop markers, too, nice. Id love to move the playhead as well 
that way, instead of this "middle click, forward key (or is the playhead 
ahead in that case backwards)" foggy business, and come to think of it, 
I would not mind if that would only move the transcient, invisible "last 
play position" and not the left & right markers. So that basically would 
just move the playhead. Can't that be an option? I might add to my case 
that this is the standard behaviour in the timelines of most of the 
software I saw. I have Kdenlive opened now, and that is what it does, 
only with the left mouse button. Doing like the elders say is often a 
(the) good path :)

Second: Is there a technical reason why the "spacebar" play (and the 
moving between markers) is disabled while a plugin interface is opened? 
I know it can be solved with a control surface. Aaah, yes, I know. 
That's because one can have a need for his space key /inside/ the plugin 
interface to enter letters, like to name a preset. Hm. Feel free to 
ignore me :/

I guess I just wanted to say hi ;) and thanks again for Qtractor. Hey, 
why can't we see the list of presets of SynthV1 (which is really a mean 
polyphonic beast but I already said that) in the track's right-click 
"preset" menu like in other well-groomed plugins? ;)

Phil


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