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From: Wayne Folta <wfolta@...>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 at 5:49:57 PM
Subject: Inspired by Christian...
Message #151207
This is a reply to #151128.
I have plunged again into the manual (yes, I am one who reads the entire manual when I first get a program, and I had read it) and am particularly paying attention to Key Commands. One question and one observation: Q: Some of the Key Commands appear unusable in the default configuration. For example, "Clear Overload flag in Audio Channel Display" has a U-umlaute, which is hard to figure out how to access. (Does it mean "Opt-U", perchance?) And "Snip" has a less-than sign, which is -- on my keyboard -- Shift-, (Shift-comma) which already has an assignment. Similarly ` (backquote) is not listed anywhere, but seems to be a shortcut for Deselect All. Any comments? Observation: Less-experienced users, such as me, complain that we want zoom to always zoom to the SPL, not to the left-most selected object, if one is selected. More-experienced users don't seem to see this as an issue. And I may have just found out why: they don't use it. At least that's my guess. It's the kind of zooming that converts from other programs use. But in fact, I've discovered the Key Commands that make this kind of zooming useless: Z and Shift-Z. Select the object (or objects) you want to zoom in to and press "Z". (I've remapped it so that it only does a horizontal zoom instead of the default horizontal and vertical.) Once you're done, Shift-Z zooms you back out to where you were. Sort-of like the magnify tool, except faster, and WAY faster than the idea of moving the SPL and then zooming several telescope clicks in. So in some sense, the "visual cognates" (as it were) like the telescope buttons will fool you because they are either unused by advanced users or they have different uses from what they appear, but in specific cases act similarly to their equivalents in other programs. Sort of like French-English cognates, which will lead to unexpected problems, as opposed to German- or Russian-English cognates which are reasonable guides. Make any sense?
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