On 01,08,03 at 12:26 pm -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Would it be possible to have some way of selecting "horizontally"? (For example, selecting to copy the bass drum pattern from the lowest line in the editor, but leave all the rest of the higher lines alone? Similarly, would it be possible to introduce a means of selecting "vertically" within a bar (i.e. selecting everything in the 3rd and 4th beats of a 4/4 measure, but leaving the first two beats alone?)?
These are both good ideas, and I know other people have hinted at the use for the same kind of thing as well. The big question is, how to implement the UI in a manner that provides that flexibility without adding to confusion for newbie users? 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? 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). -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca