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

[Chris Belle]

I've been getting around this by using the go to beginning and end of 
loop, and then checking position, but yeh, being able to query
those begin and end time selection points would be great.


On 10/27/2015 9:48 PM, Derek Lane via RWP wrote:
> A Speak selection action would be amazing!
> There have been several occasions where I'm editing a presentation, 
> and I make a time selection, press delete, and hear 1 item removed.
> The end result is the rest of the audio on that track being removed.
> Knowing what is being selected would help, and limit the amount of 
> times I have to press undo.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Chesworth via RWP" 
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> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Cc: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Reporting item selection with OSARA [was: Fading out]
>
>
>> 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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