Divide by multiple lines
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#25 Divide by multiple lines
Sometimes, I have more than two lines of text that need to be divided into more than two subtitles.
Unfortunately, due to the bug mentioned in https://sourceforge.net/p/subtitle-workshop-classic/tickets/24/ , it can be quite a chore.
How would I expect it to look (proposed solution):
We have a "Divide after line number" counter. We could add a "Divide into" counter, with the default value of 2 (which should also be the minimum).
If more than 2 is chosen, most of the rations should be greyed out with the exception of 1:1. The user should be forced to either choose the 1:1 division ratio, or to select automatic ratio in the checkbox.
Once more than 2 is chosen, additional panels should appear, with the show, hide, duration, length, textbox and the checkbox for continuing directly.
The entire dialog should become scrollable once more than 2 are chosen. And scrolling should be disabled if changed back to 2. The window size shouldn't be modified by these changes (the user currently can drag and change the dialog window size, so let's let the user decide...)
If the user selects more than 2, the boxes should be refilled based on the ratio chosen, same goes for changing it back to 2. There should be a boolean set to true if the user actually modifies any of the textboxes (or time boxes) - when changing the number of divisions, the boolean should be checked and if true, a dialog should appear asking the user if they really want to change the number of divisions, as that will inadvertly cause a loss of modified data.
Clicking on Divide would cause a multi division.
User case scenario:
1. Sometimes there are dialogue "boxes" - long amounts of spoken words that are nearly perfectly continuous, without pauses or changes in speed. Identifying the start and end of such a block can save a lot of time - the user no longer has to time each individual subtitle, they only have to create a singular subtitle from the start to the end of the dialogue "box" (for a lack of a better word), translate all of it, add line breaks (by using Enter), and then (currently) mash CTRL+SHIFT+D and ENTER multiple times to nearly perfect results (... if https://sourceforge.net/p/subtitle-workshop-classic/tickets/24/ didn't exist and sometimes line breaks didn't disappear in nondivided subtitles in a puff of smoke, that is). This process can further be streamlined by the proposed solution.
2. And... sometimes I just have text that I want to divide into three subtitles. :P
Thanks. I will have a look.