Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Selection, position cursor

[Guillaume L. <gla...@te...>]

On Sunday 11 November 2001 20:33, Chris Cannam wrote:
>
> At the moment when you click on the ruler, the cursor positions
> itself at the precise pixel position at which you clicked.  Much
> more useful would be if the cursor was positioned just at the
> start of the nearest event to where you clicked

But how do you do that with multiple staves ?

> I must say, entirely aside from that, I'm finding the new cursor-
> placement method pretty tricky to use -- the ruler just isn't big
> enough to click on,

Yes. At one point for testing purposes I doubled its height to 20, and it was 
much easier to deal with but still a bit too big. I'm trying 15, tell me what 
you think.

> and being able to drag the cursor isn't a
> great deal of use.  We could definitely do with shift-click or
> something.

Yup. Merely having to move the mouse up to the staff to change its position 
isn't very practical. 

> work within the present structure.  It has to live somewhere
> else, because it needs to know about things like clef and key.
> Which also suggests some potential efficiency issues, in
> traversing the staff to find out those things.  Hmm.

How feasible would it be to cache this data ? (clef/key positions)

-- 
					Guillaume.
					http://www.telegraph-road.org