[Rosegarden-bugs] [ rosegarden-Feature Requests-1581889 ] One cursor instead of two !

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Feature Requests item #1581889, was opened at 2006-10-21 11:20
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Submitted By: Brunetton (brunetton)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: One cursor instead of two !

Initial Comment:
 I really do not understand why rosegarden use two 
cursors : the insertion cursor and the playback 
cursor.

 It's a loose of time always clicking to the two 
buttons "insertion --> playback" and "playback --> 
insertion". Even if I assigned keyboard shortcuts to 
that actions, it's quite boring.

 All softwares that propose users to playback and 
insert things have only one cursor, and it's alway 
efficient. 

 Maybe this is usefull for that : User playback from 
bar 5 to bar 10. The playback cursor is at 10. If he 
wants to continue playing from 10, he could move the 
insertion cursor to the playback cursor. If he wants 
to playback again, he moves the playback cursor to 
the insertion one. I understand. 
 BUT, many professional video editing softwares uses 
that mechanism (with one unique cursor) :
- SPACE --> start playback from 5
** playing **
- SPACE --> stop and do not move (so, cursor is then 
at the position when user pressed space)
- ENTER --> stop and rewind to initial position 
(cursor is then at 5 again, to perform a other 
playback)

 If the reason is not that one, I don't understand. 
The fact is that I propose to remove that two cursors 
and keep only one. Or give us an option that always 
synchronize cursors (so, minor chcanges to code) and 
only draw one of them.


 Thanks for reading.

Mabe should I post on the devel mailing list ? I 
don't know.

Bruno Duyé

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Comment By: TubaSoldier (tubasoldier)
Date: 2006-10-28 23:39

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I personally think the SPACE bar is a bad key to initialize
playback. It is such a large key and can be inadvertently
pressed while trying to accomplish another task.

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Comment By: Chris Cannam (cannam)
Date: 2006-10-22 06:51

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The reasons for having more than one cursor are mostly  
bound up with the notation view, and the matrix view only  
inherits this design for consistency (of a sort).  In the  
notation editor, of course the insert cursor has a limited  
"resolution" (it snaps to the locations of notes); and in  
both editors of course the playback pointer may be outside  
the range of the segment being edited, much of the time.  
  
It is a rather inelegant solution though. 
 
By all means post on rg-devel about this sort of thing -- 
it's perfectly acceptable to do both (post on rg-devel and 
open feature requests or bug reports). 
 
 

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