On Sunday 13 September 2009, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> "cursor_up_staff"
> "cursor_down_staff"
> "cursor_prior_segment"
> "cursor_next_segment"

> So these turn out to be a very large question mark.

Indeed.  If there are multiple staffs, is it even possible to edit more than 
one of them in the same notation view now?

Yes, but I find it difficult to control which one of them I'm going to insert 
anything into.  Especially with the keyboard.

And the select forward/back stuff has my head buzzing.  This well and truly 
only has meaning in one edit view at a time, but that behavior is not at all 
consistent with one cursor, and it's a transport cursor.

Not only just one edit view at a time, one segment at a time.  You can't 
select across segments, even though it would be really convenient to be able 
to do that in a multi-staff edit view (especially where several overlapping 
segments are on the same staff).  Those aren't problems we're going to sort 
out for Thorn, if ever, to be honest about it.

So what to do about these indeed, and their parallels in the matrix now that 
you can edit multiple segments in the same matrix view.  The matrix never had 
this ability before, but the main thing preventing it from being useful now is 
there is utterly no way to control this "up staff/down staff" kind of 
functionality, and only one segment can be presented for editing.

Well I guess we had better get cracking on working out the answers to these 
many questions.  Can we really work out solutions to everything that don't 
involve a local cursor, or do we need to put the local cursor back?

I'm catching up late.  Does anyone else actually have a plan for how this was 
all supposed to have worked out?  A way to work around all of these 
limitations?

If not, I feel the February deadline slipping away rapidly while we stall out 
trying to figure out how to solve these problems.  I have the beginnings of 
some thoughts about several of these, but if the things I'm thinking are in 
any way actually required to get the job done, we're looking at months to get 
it all done and get it all right.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day 
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on 
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with 
Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________
Rosegarden-devel mailing list
[email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel

Reply via email to