[Rwp] Reporting item selection with OSARA [was: Fading out]

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi Jamie,

In an ideal world, this is the ux I'd like for multiple item selection.

When selecting with - let's say CTRL+Shift+arrows, I'd like action
feedback of each item name as I move onto it. In ReaAccess, these
announcements were preceded by the item number. For me, that item
number is superfluous more often than not, but I can imagine it being
useful for anyone who's dealing with thousands of short items where
naming them all wouldn't be a good use of their Reaping time. So, we'd
hit CTRL+Shift+Right and hear something like "4 2nd verse added to
selection". That way, the newbies have confirmation of what happened
if they care to wait long enough to hear "added to selection", and the
more confident users will hear the name of the item they've added and
can skip to the next. I'd like to be able to request info on what's
selected with a separate keystroke. When it comes to this, I found the
ReaAccess approach of only reporting a total number of items annoying,
because it's not always useful. Assuming some time went into making
that selection (grabbing items from multiple tracks for example),
hearing their names read out would be more informative and much more
useful for my workflows. The important thing is that we only hear that
potentially long list of info upon request, so the time spent
listening to it is a choice, hence my suggestion of a separate
keystroke to query it. If you could make that keystroke context
sensitive, so it'd tell me which tracks were selected if I'd selected
those, which items were selected if I'd selected those, perhaps a
start and end time if I've made a time selection etc, I'd be one happy
Reaper-er.

Thoughts?

Scott

On 10/28/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> On 28/10/2015 9:28 AM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
>> my only head scratching thing with reaper lately is how to know how
>> many items and which items you have selected.
>> When gluing and such and using the shift with the control and right
>> and left arrows like we did with reaccess doesn't give the same feedback.
> Yup, reporting item selection is on my to-do list. One question, though:
> how would oyu want to be told which items are selected? As I understand
> it, when you select additional items, ReaAccess just tells you how many
> items are selected. Reporting every selected item every time you press
> ctrl+shift+rightArrow wouldn't be particularly eficient...
>
> Jamie
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