[audacity4blind] Re: step size of arrow keys
- From: Brad Erhardt <brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:00:23 -0800
I think that having shortcuts like this would be very useful, I vote yes!
Brad Erhardt
On 2014-01-06, at 10:02 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>
> Does anyone want to vote for separate shortcuts to respectively
> "nudge" the cursor a specific distance left and right (such as
> 100 milliseconds) which would work irrespective of zoom level?
>
> It's been requested a few times, but the only way to do it now
> is to set the short seek time in Playback Preferences to your
> chosen value then use respectively comma and period (or your
> custom shortcuts) to nudge.
>
> That isn't ideal as you probably want to seek further than you want
> to nudge.
>
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>
> Gale
>
> | From David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:02:55 +0000 (GMT)
> | Subject: [audacity4blind] step size of arrow keys
>> this message is note than the zoom normal command can be very useful
>> for setting the step size of the arrow keys, for example when using left
>> or right arrow to move the cursor. You can just use zoom out and zoom in
>> until you get the step size you want, but using zoom normal first means
>> that you can quickly get to the step size that you want.
>> After opening or importing an audio file, the zoom setting is often
>> automatically changed by an amount which depends on the length of the
>> file. This means that the zoom level can vary widely, depending on the
>> length of the audio files you've opened or imported.
>> If you execute the zoom normal command (ctrl+2), then the step size is set
>> to
>> slightly more than a hundredth of a second. This is normally too small
>> to be a useful step size. If you then zoom out three times (ctrl+3 three
>> times),
>> then the step size is then slightly less than a tenth of a second,
>> which is normally a more useful step size.
>> The step size also applies when you use shift + left/right arrow
>> or ctrl+shift+left/right arrow to move the start and end of a selected
>> time range.
>>
>> David.
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