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I would like to see the Grid provide feedback about the current snap state.
1. According to the manual, you must 'double click' a square in the Grid to activate it. But it changes color when you single click it. It should only change color after you double click it successfully, i.e., the double click has properly been exectued. Then you know the snap is successfully applied.
2. Since you can select protions of the song, i.e., some sections or parts of progressions and have them set to different Grid snap values, the Grid should update to the current snap value in the linear song progression. In other words, change its highlighted snap value to reflect the value present at any given time in the song.
Prado
Mon, 2012-10-29 - 19:43 Permalink
Double-click applies the grid to selected data and modifies it.
A single click is enough to select the grid. The grid then applies to selections and insertions you make. Existing data is not modified.
The grid is a tool only, It does not indicate a property of the data.
Mon, 2012-10-29 - 20:14 Permalink
Supertonic ... I'm sorry, what you say is unclear.
I understand about the Grid being a tool, so I can see why it wouldn't be able to be updated as a property.
But I do not understand your explanation of the distinction between double-click and modification versus single-click select and apply.
If by the latter you are refering to importing sketch or inserting a new section, please be explicit.
Also, you do not appear to understand my other point. Anyone who has ever double-clicked an icon on a desktop recognizes that all double-clicks are not equal. If the program opens, you are successful. If not, you must double-click again at a better target or clicking rate. But when the program opens, you know your double-click was successful.
Currently, there does not appear to be any way to know whether you have successfully double-clicked or not from the GUI.
Prado
Mon, 2012-10-29 - 20:24 Permalink
Single-click is tool selection only. No data is changed. You pick the grid to be considered for future edits.
Double-click modies the selected data. It is always successful. It can not fail. If any objects are affected, you can see them moving to the grid positions.
Mon, 2012-10-29 - 21:54 Permalink
Perhaps it's a language thing ... but you still don't seem to understand my point.
Double-click is agreeably "always successful" when it is in fact executed. The problem is there is no confirmatory feedback to know immediately if you have successfully double-clicked. That is why I provided the example of an icon on a desktop where you rapidly know if the double-click was successfully executed.
The feedback you mention of seeing somethiing affected in the phrase figure requires that you have always selected exactly the correct instrument's phrase to see any effect. Yet the application can be global across selected objects.
If you are proposing that feedback from happily having the correct instrument phrase selected is adequate, I disagree. This is not good design.
Prado
Mon, 2012-10-29 - 21:58 Permalink
Single-click is tool selection only. No data is changed. You pick the grid to be considered for future edits.
Thank you for this clarification. I'd call this a 'place holder'. It is not really a selection of any execution of function in the program.
With this in mind, I would come back to my original suggestion: the color should change only upon successful execution of a double-click.
Prado
