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Request: Maintain tool selection in Phrase Editor

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Currently, when working with a tool such as "select individual symbols" in the figure editing area of the phrase editor, switching over to harmony editing and back to figure editing causes the tool to switch back to the default tool of "select segments."

I think it would be more intuitive if the current tool selection would be maintained through changing pages in the phrase editor. Closing the phrase editor would suffice for resetting the tool back to the default, IMHO.

Edit: I know that only the "select span" and "select chord" tools are available in the harmony editing portion and this is probably one of the reasons the tool is changed, but it would be nice if Synfire temporarily held the "invalid" tool selection when changing back over; as it does if you flip between the figure editing and some other parameter, like editing velocity.

I feel that this would make things feel a bit more consistent.


Mon, 2009-07-06 - 18:26 Permalink

Also, it would be nice to have hotkeys that switched between the various tools (I think tokyorose suggested this earlier.)