maccer wrote:If you use a Macbook Pro...
Oh you Macbook Pro people... always causing trouble.
Apparently there is some model of Macbook Pro out there that doesn't have arrow keys or something crazy like that. (Was it page up/down? Something bizarre...)
If Ctrl+click is the equivalent of right click, I'll do that. I like it. The loop area of the timeline is much too small to try to get people to interact with.
We'll see if I can get that up and running before the release, but it'll definitely make it in soon. Hopefully I'll get it in at a low enough level that Ctrl+click will always be a right click (on Mac) going forward, should I decide to involve a right mouse button in the future.
maccer wrote:... the possibility to change the start and end of the loop by having draggable handles
I was thinking about it. It did seem to get a little tricky because the bookmark graphic kind of looks like it might be a drag handle. I decided to take the easy route and do nothing for now. Especially with snapping, it doesn't seem too horrible to remake the whole loop each time.
I've been able to accomplish what I need to using the system that's in there now. Then again, I haven't made the very long type of loops you were talking about. I'll play with it some more and see how that feels.
maccer wrote:Click somewhere in the yellow loop marker to turn the loop on/off (show a kind of ghost loop marker when it's off) without needing to delete the loop if you want to turn it on/off.
that's kind of a neat idea. Toggling the loop isn't bad. Even more value would come from something like that if the loops were persisted. Right now they're not because I think of them as being super transient. And that's because there's no way to disable them!
maccer wrote:Drag somewhere in the yellow loop marker to move the loop.
That seems like it'd be a little less used and that interaction is even more tricky because dragging in the time-line already has a different meaning. Again, trying to define some tiny 4 or 5 pixel tall sliver of area above the timeline as the loop bar is something I'd like to try and avoid.
TonE wrote:... it is a little irritating at the moment imo.
If you imagine an implicit bookmark at the beginning of every song, everything is consistent. The "Previous Bookmark (comma)" shortcut already works that way.
TonE wrote:I could imagine an option which adds automatically a bookmark to the beginning and end of the song...
Someone asked me if there was a quick way to jump to the beginning of a song about a week ago (via email).
My answer (for 0.7.1) was "if you don't have any other bookmarks, you can use comma... otherwise, maybe tap comma really fast?"
Your answer (post 0.7.1) is "press the special 'create a bookmark key at the beginning of the song' -- but only if you haven't already or it'll toggle it off -- and then press 1."
My answer (post 0.7.1) is "press 1".
I like my post 0.7.1 answer best.
You asked why the beginning is treated special and the answer is that it's not: there has been an implicit bookmark there since the beginning.
If it helps, you can think of it as two separate sets of shortcut keys:
1: jump to beginning of song
(2-9)+0: jump to the first nine bookmarks
Once you get used to it, I think the irritation will go away. 1 is adding something that wasn't there before.