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

[Derek Lane]

What about just using the words added and removed.
This way we get the best of both worlds?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Chesworth via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Cc: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Reporting item selection with OSARA [was: Fading out]


> 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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