Marker view needs enhancements

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trmusic
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2016/02/17 11:14:55 (permalink)
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Marker view needs enhancements

The marker view needs to move into the 21st Century.  It's too rigid.  Because the columns are fixed in size, font, content, etc, it must be opened to a certain minimum size to be useful, and that size is, in my opinion, almost always too big.
 
Please consider these changes to the view:
1. Resizable columns -- this would help a LOT
2. Custom content (locks or not?)
3. Adjustable fonts - at least a size option
4. Scrollable viewport - right now if the marker name is off the right margin you're forced to enlarge the view.
 
Thanks,
thom
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    ebibault51
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    Re: Marker view needs enhancements 2016/02/23 08:59:28 (permalink)
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    I think that the marker concept itself is old-fashioned. The developers should keep the idea of being able to jump to one point easily, that's good.
    But I would like the markers to be changed into Excel-like ranges of cells (or call it areas or zones). I mean, markers save a point, whereas range of cells in Excel save an area. In SONAR, that would offer new possibilities:
    - save a zone that corresponds to an important part of your project : chorus 1, verse 1, bridge... That's not very different but that allows you a one-click selection of the chorus 1, for example.
    - save multiple selections into your SONAR project. I often work on a selected part, for example from 1:01:000 to 10:01:000, then I edit another one: from 15:01:000 to 20:01:000. Then if I want to go back to edit [1:01:000 to 10:01:000] I have to select again. In Excel, I just have to define zone names and select them. It's a big time saver, and avoids some selection errors too.
    - with markers being areas instead of points, these areas could be delimited by a color bar in the track view, with the name above. The bar would be selectable for one-click area selection.
     
    And maybe one day, markers/areas/zones could be 2D: a combination of intervals (like 1:01:000 to 10:01:000) and tracks (tracks 1, 2 and 5 for example).

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