2010/3/1 Jeff <[email protected]>:
>
>
> o Click on the ruler, and a popup opens where you can enter text and
> create a mark at the clicked time.
>
> Hmmm. I'd recommend not doing that, because clicking (and click+dragging) on
> the ruler is used to seek. I'd prefer if you used a keyboard shortcut + a
> menu item (as suggested in the bug report). It also breaks other things (see
> the end of this mail).

Oh, right.  Ok.  Once I figure out how to get the keybindings working,
I'll remove the on-click handler.

> o <Escape> deletes the mark being edited, <Enter> saves it.
>
> OK for "Enter = save", but "Escape = delete" is wrong. It is not an expected
> keyboard binding. Escape should be used to "exit editing mode and discarding
> the changes since the last time you entered the edit mode", not deletion.

Yeah, this way is definitely wrong, but it made for easy testing while
I developed it.  I've been trying to decide if it needs buttons (I was
thinking along the lines of small circular checkmark/redx).

> Deletion should not have a keyboard shortcut (or maybe Ctrl+Delete, but not
> simply "Delete" because that would prevent deleting characters with it).
>
> All the rest sounds good so far, in theory. Good work :)
>
> Other issues that I noticed when actually testing the patch:
> - The markers are bright red, same color as the playhead. This should
> definitely change.

Yeah.  Do you think having different colored marks (or 'mark groups')
would be useful?  Or should I just pick a non-red color for now?

> - They look a bit clunky/unpolished: they are simply rectangles instead of
> being pretty shapes (but I understand/presume it's not trivial to do)

Yeah, they're actually just very thick lines.  I'll have to look at
polygons. I assume I can blit images onto the pixbuf, I'll need to
experiment.  What would your ideal look be?

> - The marker labels could be shown at all times (in an ellipsized version),
> not requiring to always hover them with the mouse to get a tooltip)

Well, I wasn't sure how to deal with overlapping tips?  ie, I zoom in
all the way, create a few tips, then zoom all the way out, all of the
tips I just made are on the far-right side of the ruler...how should
it behave?

> - Clips should be able to snap to them?

That's an interesting idea.  I'll keep it in mind.

> - You currently can't move them/right-click them.

Yup.

> - Their position jumps around/breaks when you zoom in.

Weird.  I thought I had this working, but I see what you mean.  I'll
have to see if I can fix it.

-RN

-- 
Robin Norwood

"The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone."
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