Hi Thorsten,

Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011, 14:51:28 schrieb Thorsten Müller:
> I just submitted a patch to the dev branch that allows to split segments in
> the instrument track.
Good stuff! Where can I find the patch?

> My next project will be merging two (or possibly more) segments into one.
> While the ui for splitting was easy and straightforward, merging could be
> done in different ways.
> 
> I see two main approaches:
> I got me a old pdf from a Cubase manual. There it is handled quite simple:
> You click the merge button and then you click a segment. This segment will
> be merged with whatever segment follows next on the track. If there is
> empty space between the tracks the new segment will have some empty space
> too.
> 
> An alternative approach would be to select several segments and then click
> the merge button and merge all segments.
> That's maybe more comfortable but could be slightly confusing sometimes.
I'd like the second approach. Selecting things and merging is intentional and 
also the usual in other programs (e.g. drawing programs)

> Then there is the question how to handle segments that overlap or hide each
> other. If this happens, I would at least show a dialog to warn the user and
> give him a chance to cancel the operation.
Yes.
 
> Any other important edge cases i miss here that could lead to problems
> depending on which segments are chosen for merging?
I can't think of one ATM.

Toby

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