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

[James Teh]

Sounds fair to me. I actually didn't take into account that OSARA 
currently doesn't even report the item you've just selected. Sorry; 
brain fail. :)

One minor question is whether "added to selection" is what we want or 
just the number of items now selected.

I think there's even actually already a GitHub issue open for this.

Jamie

On 28/10/2015 10:49 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
> 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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