[RWP] KeyMaps

[Jim Snowbarger]

In sound forge, home and end do different things, depending on whether a 
selection is active.
When one is active, they move to the startt and end of the selection.

I really like the idea of making them the same here.  But, I dont' see a way 
of making actions conditional.
But, perhaps there is a way.  Isn't there a way of batching multiple actions 
together, like a macro?
Isn't there a ReaScript, or some language like that behind this?  Seems like 
a possibility.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] KeyMaps


> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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