zoom tool/zoom undo 'findings'

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on November 14, 2010 02:53:18

Tim, been enjoying this - thanks alot, its a winner for sure, but I have found a minor issue when trying to zoom marquee in or drag undo at high zoom levels, this on XP 32 and on my laptop and a desktop dualcore -
the problem is a 'lag' or hang whilst it figures out what to do, whilst it does that the cursor remains unchanged, user can then repeat the gesture in an attempt to get it going and that just make things worse and you can enter an undo cycle of death where you undo to a sample level of zoom and can't really escape. :(

part of that may (not sure) be down to certain quick drag up's being interpreted as a tiny zoom marquee, but thats just a new theory, my initial thought was that the hang/lag/delay led to a undo point loss or similar, maybe.

on a similar line one potential FR that may top things off would be a 'long' drag-up be zoom out to project (the final undo) for skipping a bunch of undos to get back to zoomed out mode.

a quick clik-drag up for undo step by step is really cool quick and useful, but a deliberate e.g 60 pixels drag up could undo zoom to project - but more importantly a solution to the lag would be most awesome!
thanks again
Ben

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/sws-extension/issues/detail?id=212

[Jeff0S]

From musicbynumbers@gmail.com on November 13, 2010 19:04:03

does it still happen if you take of the last zoom option to zoom out to the whole song?

could be that?

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on November 13, 2010 20:04:36

hey, nope as i'd tried that but your q prompted me to double check those settings and it seems that 'no-drag click zooms to item' is the culprit - yay ;) - with that unticked all is well and quick even at max zoom levels, however its a nice additional feature to my ideal trio of that, marquee zoom and drag-up to undo, so i hope having isolated the cause, the zoom wizards can sort it!

cheers

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on November 14, 2010 13:05:59

Ah ha, the "zoom to item" is the ticket. Fixed for next release.

Status: Started
Owner: swstim

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on November 15, 2010 07:11:08

Fixed in v1.8.6 #2 r305

Status: Fixed

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on November 15, 2010 09:44:58

thanks! all seems well -

i did a quick licecap of it in action - I may pop it on the reaper sws thread since i think its a pretty cool set of capabilities, all with a standard mouse, no keys etc.
a way to get back to project view in one click/gesture (my suggested long drag up for example ;) ) would just round it off, not a big deal though, awesome work. http://stash.reaper.fm/7099/zoom.gif

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on December 09, 2010 11:57:41

Hi guys - after some use with these rather wonderful tools - one FR: would it be possible to optionally have the edit/play cursor move to the start point of any zoom area? - but also perhaps be smart enough to undo along with any zoom undos? - u recently added edit cursor undos i recall, so bit of a combo could work.

oh my - i had a thought, optionally time select with the zoom marquee too.... {CAN O WORMS)

no its just i often quickly zoom in and expect to 'hear what i see' when i hit play and that doesn't happen with the cursor elsewhere!

cheers.
Ben

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on December 09, 2010 11:59:20

move cursor -if stopped- i forget to say..

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on March 26, 2011 16:35:20

Hi guys, any chance of optional 'cursor jump to start of view' when zooming in?

its proving to be frustrating to quickly marquee zoom in (which is cool) but then have to mouse click to get the cursor in the area of interest.

I keep expecting playback to start at where i've landed, when its actually off somewhere else..

would be v.cool if could be done - know you're busy busy but thought i'd 'bump'.. cheers
bk.

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on March 26, 2011 16:41:29

Sure, easy enough. :)

Status: Started

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on March 27, 2011 14:36:10

much grovelling thanks!

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on April 30, 2011 14:52:02

sorry but has this been slipped in to the beta as not found it, no biggy just naturally eager! appreciate all the new stuff, just exploring now..

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on April 30, 2011 15:36:57

Sorry, it's not there yet. Sometime soon, hopefully.

[Jeff0S]

From brk...@gmail.com on May 01, 2011 09:49:02

ok thanks for clarifying - thought i was going loopy! cheers

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on May 16, 2011 23:23:09

Added options "Move edit cursor when zooming in" and "Set time selection when zooming in" to the SWS zoom preferences dialog.
Implemented in v.2.0.0 #22 r478 .

Status: Fixed

[Jeff0S]

From swstim on May 16, 2011 23:39:32

...note I didn't include undoing of edit cur/time sel changes when undoing zooms since that is a bit of a can of worms. Feel free to add a new FR if that's really important to you!