Although I don't mind if the behavior stays the way it is because I'm used
to this now, as I said, it did lead to some confusion when I first began
cut/copy and pasting and I believe it can be confusing for new users.
In a word processing document, for example, one can highlight some material,
copy, and then immediately paste the material without having to first clear
the selection. As you point out though, the anchor based selection approach
is a bit different, but maybe not what people are used to using.
Perhaps one solution is to have the paste function automatically clear the
selection so that it just looks like pasting to the user without having to
clear anything.
Anyway, just a thought. Would be interested to see what others think.
--Pete
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Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: Clear selectionh after copy to clipboard
This seems like an unusual request, since I can't think of any other Windows
app which clears the selection when copying to the clipboard. This is the
price one pays for anchor-based selecting, which is the ability to navigate
in a file without disturbing the selection. The cost of the anchor based
approach is to remember to clear the selection, and that doesn't seem like
an unreasonable trade-off when you consider what you get in return.
I would consider putting up a flash message saying something like,
"Selection replaced", before I would consider clearing the selection when
copied. At least you would have a chance to undo, clear the selection, and
paste again if you received this message.
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Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: Clear selectionh after copy to clipboard
+1 - I've been caught by this same issue a number of times. It took me a
while to figure out what was going on. Although it is clearly described in
the manual, it is more intuitive to just perform the cut/copy and paste
without having to clear a previous selection.
--pete
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Subject: [studiorecorder] Clear selectionh after copy to clipboard
Hi Rob:
I have a suggestion. Whenever I copy a sound selection to the clipboard to
paste elsewhere I need to remember to press c to clear the selection.
Otherwise, when I move to the new location and paste from clipboard nothing
happens because the clipboard audio is pasting back over itself since the
selection is still active. I have made this mistake numerous times.
Is it possible SR could automatically clear the selection after copying to
clipboard? I can't think of a use case where I would copy to clipboard and
need the selection to stay active. If I did there is always the Shift+C to
recall it.
Thanks, Gerry
