Selecting contiguous items

[GianlucaApollaro]

Hi, selecting contiguous items on a track would be good. I did it using the sws actions select next item, keeping current selection (across tracks) and of course, select previous item, keeping current selection (across tracks). This works, but in rea-access we had the cursor moving to the selected item that therefore was playing, but more inportantly we had the number of selected items reported and spoken.
I think two new custom actions might be required
Thanks as always and keep up the good work

[jcsteh]

I agree we need actions to select contiguous items, though as you pointed out, SWS has these and we could just tweak them in a similar way to the way normal item navigation is handled. However, I'm not sure I agree with announcing the number of selected items. That could get very annoying. I guess you can silence it if needed, but it's also inconsistent with the way selection is handled everywhere else. For example, when you select text, you only hear the text you just selected, not the entire selection every time or a count of selected characters. Can you explain why this should be any different? I'd be happy to consider a command for reporting selection information, though, since it's certainly true that sighted users could see this easily enough.

[GianlucaApollaro]

Hi, I tried different things to tweak them chaining different actions, but it was not working reliably enough. Here's why I think it could be good to have the number of selected item spoken. Here's what happens in rea-access. Let's say we have a track with 4 items on it. We select all 4 of them by pressing ctrlShift and right arrow; each time we press the key, the corresponding item starts playing and it gets selected. At this point we go back with ctrl shift and the left arrow. Although the item playing, in our case, would be the item 3, the selected items are still 4 and I know it because reaccess tells me 4 items selected. Basically when you go back you are not unselecting the item you just passed, and sws has the same behaviour from what I could see. Sorry for the lenght of this post, but I hope I explained myself well Il 06/03/2015 03:05, jcsteh ha scritto:

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I agree we need actions to select contiguous items, though as you pointed out, SWS has these and we could just tweak them in a similar way to the way normal item navigation is handled. However, I'm not sure I agree with announcing the number of selected items. That could get very annoying. I guess you can silence it if needed, but it's also inconsistent with the way selection is handled everywhere else. For example, when you select text, you only hear the text you just selected, not the entire selection every time or a count of selected characters. Can you explain why this should be any different? I'd be happy to consider a command for reporting selection information, though, since it's certainly true that sighted users could see this easily enough. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <#12 (comment)>.

[chrisbelle2015]

Nice one Jamie. It took me a minute to figure out how that worked, the one action puts it in the mode and then you use the other one to read the status of selected or unselected. Then you go back to the other action to toggle it. I hope I'm using it correctly, that seems how it's working for me. I"m actually starting to feel nominally competent with reaper to where I don't have to sit in the dum dum corner every single day pondering why reaper didn't do something simple I asked it to do, ha.\

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[jcsteh]

If you want contiguous selection, you don't have to enable any mode. You just use the "keep selection" actions. If you want noncontiguous, you engage it with toggle selection, then use tggle selection thereafter to... well... toggle selection. :) You don't need to keep using report selection. The item movement actions OSARA supports will tell you each item as you move to it, including whether or not it's selected. Note that you'll need to bind the new item keep selection actions yourself, as they certainly won't be in the DG keymap yet.

[chrisbelle2015]

yeh, I did bind both the new actions. This is going to make things a lot easier. Nice one Jamie.

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On 11/14/2015 2:28 PM, James Teh wrote: If you want contiguous selection, you don't have to enable any mode. You just use the "keep selection" actions. If you want noncontiguous, you engage it with toggle selection, then use tggle selection thereafter to... well... toggle selection. :) You don't need to keep using report selection. The item movement actions OSARA supports will tell you each item as you move to it, including whether or not it's selected. Note that you'll need to bind the new item keep selection actions yourself, as they certainly won't be in the DG keymap yet. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <#12 (comment)>.

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