At 23:28 03-08-03, Ben Kennedy wrote:
I am almost inclined to scrap the current mode whereby you have to press Cmd in order to have context-sensitive drum selection, and make that the default behaviour. Is there anyone on this list who does NOT use this, and instead prefers to mouse back and forth to the drum list each time to choose a new drum? I originally designed it to make the functioning simple and obvious for new users, thinking that they would become confused to see the mouse cursor change as they moved over the patterns vertically. However, I suspect that after using the app for a few minutes, the intended use becomes natural. Is this true?
I think this rapidly becomes true for a new user. I started by ignoring the context-sensitive stuff simply because I'm usually too lazy to do things like pressing the Cmd button while mousing, but quickly found I was even lazier to travel back and forth between the drumkit menu and pattern editor.
If we were to go this route (making context-sensitive the principal mode), then Cmd could become the method used to select individual regions within the patterns (as one might more naturally expect anyway, à la Finder icon selection).
This certainly has my vote. I think the functionality gain from being able to select individual regions within the patterns more than outweighs the risk of confusing a novice user with a context sensitive cursor (it seems to me that applications are increasingly making their cursors context sensitive anyway). Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/