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Select All (one vs. all channels?) Posted: 2014-06-25 05:54

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Stratelier

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#58619

Here's a little issue I have with the Select All command (whether via keyboard or mouse does not matter).

If there's any selection present (no matter how small) when you perform a Select All, FamiTracker selects all channels in the current frame, when it is probably more useful for it to first select only the current channel and then All Channels on a second press (same as if there was no selection already).

But the hard part is getting the internal logic right. I understand that the current behavior works somewhat like this:

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if (selection==yes)
{ select-all-channels }
else
{ select-current-channel }

And a selection can span one or multiple channels -- what do you do then? If you've selected multiple channels then it's not useful for a Select All to restrict itself to one channel first and all channels second. Select All should always expand from the current selection. So maybe the logic could go like:

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if (num_selected_channels > 1 && selection == entirety_of_those_channels)
{ select-all-channels }
else if (num_selected_channels > 1)
{ select-all-of-those-channels }
else
{ select-current-channel }

For comparison, if I'm in a word processor (e.g. MS Word) I can click repeatedly to select the current word, then the current sentence/paragraph. Now if I've selected some letters within a word already, the program doesn't necessarily jump straight to selecting the whole paragraph; it still goes -> word -> paragraph.

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Posted: 2014-07-07 16:34

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#59159

The Select All command is intended to act like Select All in Impulse tracker (Alt+L), but was only half-way implemented.

It shouldn't be hard to finish that, I can try to do it for the next version.

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