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

[Scott Chesworth]

I'm pretty sure you're right about the GitHub issue lol.

Personally, I'd rather hear something like added to selection. It
tells me what just happened, and assuming we're getting a separate
keystroke to query what's selected overall, it keeps the repeated info
to a minimum.

Scott

On 10/28/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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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