Playhead behavior change

Submitted by Louigi Verona on
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Hey Rui!

Just as I celebrated the feature of using middle mouse click to set playhead and quickly got used to it, you seem to have reverted the feature. Is there any way for a user to customize his controls so that it works again? Because dragging the playhead where I want or setting a blue marker and then using a key to drive the playhead to it is much slower.

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Submitted by rncbc on Mon, 22 Jul 2013 - 23:46

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yep. there was this regression on the MIDDLE-mouse-button behavior: for (general-ui and quite frankly personal as well) consistency reasons it went back to the old primordial mode: to make it on the play-head (red vertical line) you'll have to press either SHIFT or CTRL keyboard modifier keys, otherwise it will only affect the edit-head/tail (blue vertical lines).

cheers

Submitted by danboid on Thu, 8 Aug 2013 - 18:27

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I totally agree with Louigi and you haven't given us a meaningful explanation why this great feature has been reverted.

I've just read LV's post here after I had just requested the abillity for us to be able to configure the mouse on the tracker:

https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/tickets/64/

Thanks Rui!

Submitted by rncbc on Fri, 9 Aug 2013 - 09:33

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ok. mouse middle-button behavior reversal option with re. pc-keyboard modifiers (ie. shift, ctrl) will hopefully get implemented soon.

the reason for the regression is simply about consistency in the UI: you press shift+click to affect the playhead (red), otherwise the edit-head/tail (blue) are the traditional targets--this is rule for all other mouse-buttons and the middle one should not be exempted ;)

however, the new option will only address the middle-button in a first attempt so that its previous behavior can get back to you as you seem to be more comfortable with.

cheers

Submitted by danboid on Fri, 9 Aug 2013 - 18:19

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Thanks for clarifying you thinking on that and for bringing back MMB playhead placement Rui!

Submitted by rncbc on Sat, 17 Aug 2013 - 15:30

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your prays have been listened and answered on svn trunk rev.3446 (aka. qtractor 0.5.10.1)

  • New user preference option added: reverse middle-button role to
    shift/ctrl keyboard state, in special regard to edit-head/tail
    vs. play-head positioning while on the main track and MIDI clip
    editor (aka. piano-roll) views.

hth.
cheers && enjoy

Submitted by danboid on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 - 09:21

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We can now qtractor at full speed again - MMB playhead positioning is back in svn!

Thanks Rui!

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