[RWP] KeyMaps

[indigo]

Jim, Home  and end keys take you to the start and end of whatever's 
recorded on the track in focus, so after you make a selection with
alt+shift+ left and right brackets, and you're somewhere within your 
selection, do home and end still jump to beginning and end of the entire 
track and ignore your markers?
I'm not much on Sonar shortcuts, but what does home and end do in Sonar 
with the various modifiers available?

I don't know, but if there's a possible parallel with Sonar it might 
make it easier for some folks.
What does Sound Forge use to go to start and end of selection?
That might be an easy shortcut for Sound Forge users if it isn't taken 
already.
Just thoughts,
Indigo L


On 4/2/2012 11:29 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> This message is not just a jaws discussion,  so read on for an interesting idea.
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> I have been messing with the jaws scripting approach to improving how the media explorer works.  And, I've got something that seems to help anyway, and I'll be passing along a link to that in a few days.
> But, in working on that, I have discovered that there are lots of very strange irregularities regarding how key strokes are captured by reaper.  Usually, the control that will receive your key strokes is the control that has focus.  However, I have seen cases where this becomes not true.   situations  where reaper is capturing keystrokes before they get to jaws, so jaws never knows about them.  Very irregular stuff.
> But, the creation of hotkeys to quickly do things is, in general, a productivity enhancer, and an improvement in comfort.   And, if reaper has an action that will apply, it is definitely a preferred solution to use the reaper action.
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> Anyway, it's apparent that reaper shortcuts are very important to us, and can be used to do some of the same things that  a jaws script might do.  But, it has the advantage of being significantly more stable in this particular environment, andalso of being screen reader independent.
> So, what if we started centrally accumulating a list of reaper action hotkey assignments that we all find useful, so we can all talk the same language about hot keys.
> ReAccess has already made lots of assignments.  But, this is a way in which we can extend ReAccess.
> These keymaps are just formatted text files.  It looks like an import operation grabs all the key assignments from one file, and uses them exclusively.  But, you should be able to open the reaper default keymap with a text editor, and insert additional key assignments, thereby effectively merging those new assignments into your current settings.
> Of course, gut wrenching, religious arguments break out whenever two or more people try to agree on an appropriate hot key choice.  So, that will make it hard.  But, if we could just figure out how to make the choice, and submit it to a growing common list, then we could all refer to the same key strokes when we talk about how to use such things, and the growing Wiki could reference them.
> Once, general consensus seems to accept a proposed assignment, we could add it to a central file that newbies could download.  And, those of us on the list at the time could store them locally.
> Anybody think this is a good idea?
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> The discussion of a proposed addition would help make sure the action doesn't already exist somewhere, and help make reasonable hotkey choices.  Reaper and Reaccess is a land mine environment for hot keys.
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> One pair of new actions I would like to assign is the ability to move directly to the start or end of a time selection.  I find this action is handy when confirming that the selection exists, and that it is set up the way I want it to be.
> I propose windows+leftArrow and windows+right arrow.
> I wanted to connected it to some form of bracet keys, since those are generally involved in selections.
> So, I would be ok with some choice like that too.
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> BTW, I still find that, once I make a time selection with alt+shift+ left and right bracket, that, if I move to the start of the time selection, with my new hotkey, then press space, the selected portion is all I hear.
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