Topic: Preview 2.25: Zoom snapshots & revised track height zoom

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  • January 23, 2010 at 00:28 #17329
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    @thcilnnahoj wrote:

    Navigator looks great!
    My only gripe is that the “snapshot preview” is rather hard to see most of the time, but especially when previewing a snapshot that’s smaller than the current zoom range.

    Can you really tell where it is in this picture (thumbnail)?

    My suggestion: Instead of showing both the current zoom range and the preview, temporarily remove the zoom pane and only highlight the snapshot area. The current snapshot preview doesn’t have the zoom pane’s handles, so I think the chance of someone mistaking it for the actual zoom pane is not very high anyway.

    Good suggestion. Try the new beta5.

    Beta5 also has a few bug fixes. If no bugs are reported for this beta, I’ll release 2.25 this weekend.

    Follow focus track is nice too, but as expected, it doesn’t work with the embedded editor.
    I thought about suggesting the tracks view should scroll to the focus track whenever it gets out of view (unless you manually scroll away from it, of course) – if you didn’t want that, you could just disable follow focus track on the ‘Editor’ editor profile.
    …However, this poses another problem, as the event opened in the editor is not necessarily on the focus track at all. šŸ˜•

    So the best solution I can think of right now would be reworking it to just “Follow Selection” – as in follow whatever is actively selected (track or event)… I think that’d work very well. :-k

    The purpose of the “Follow focus track” option, is to link track navigation between the mixer and the tracks region. I think extending it to react to event selection can result in mysterious scrolls, as long as it is possible to select events on other than the focus track.

    January 23, 2010 at 05:50 #17330
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    Follow focus track is nice too, but as expected, it doesn’t work with the embedded editor.
    I thought about suggesting the tracks view should scroll to the focus track whenever it gets out of view (unless you manually scroll away from it, of course) – if you didn’t want that, you could just disable follow focus track on the ‘Editor’ editor profile.
    …However, this poses another problem, as the event opened in the editor is not necessarily on the focus track at all. šŸ˜•

    So the best solution I can think of right now would be reworking it to just “Follow Selection” – as in follow whatever is actively selected (track or event)… I think that’d work very well. :-k

    The purpose of the “Follow focus track” option, is to link track navigation between the mixer and the tracks region. I think extending it to react to event selection can result in mysterious scrolls, as long as it is possible to select events on other than the focus track.

    I’m saying this because I think having the edited parts in view is important to be able to edit them in context with the rest of the arrangement surrounding the event… uhh, I don’t know how to put this right. šŸ˜‰
    Even more so if you use the “shared timeline” editor.

    I thought about automatically setting key focus to the mixer/EE region when you switch to a profile that has either of them. If the mixer always received key focus upon opening it, this would override any event selections and set focus back to the track.
    Unfortunately, this idea wouldn’t work with the embedded editor… šŸ™

    Anyone else think this is important? Not important?

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