Track movement improvement about qtractor

[rncbc]

hi,

i think most of those if not all are already there:

• add keyboard shortcuts for all track movements e.g Ctrl (or Alt have no idea what others do here) + Arrow Up for moving track up.

probably not for arrow keys but possible to have shortcuts assigned to either of Track/Move/Top, Up, Down, Bottom menu commands (see Help/Shortcuts...);

• if no clip is selected in it: why not delete current track by pressing 'Del'?

there's Shift+Del as default shortcut for Track/Remove Track menu command (current track);

• How about moving track up and down by drag 'n drop (if there is something planned about selecting multiple tracks - I'd prefer 'Shift)?

you can do that already by start click-dragging over the 1st column of the track list (left panel); and yes extended multiple track selection is already there too, only that it applies to the 2nd and other columns and mostly serve to apply Shift or Ctrl over Mute and/or Solo over multiple, alternate and/or disjoint track sub-groups set up with Shift or Ctrl with click-dragging for lasso selection, etc.

hth.
cheers

[schnitzeltony]

Thanks - perfect!

[schnitzeltony]

*add keyboard shortcuts for all track movements e.g Ctrl (or Alt have no idea what others do here) + Arrow Up for moving track up.

probably not for arrow keys but possible to have shortcuts assigned to either of Track/Move/Top, Up, Down, Bottom menu commands (see Help/Shortcuts...);

Have to reopen a bit for this one and I explain why:
Playing with embedded devices means it is a frequent operation to write a complete image to scard. These images come with some presets, the packager (=me) estimates as good or mandatory. A perfect 'out-of-the-box' experience for fresh images simply means saving time for me.
So I created a default /etc/skel/.config/rncbc.org/Qtractor.conf containing

...
[Shortcuts]
qtractorMainForm\trackMoveBottomAction=Ctrl+End
qtractorMainForm\trackMoveDownAction=Ctrl+Down
qtractorMainForm\trackMoveTopAction=Ctrl+Home
qtractorMainForm\trackMoveUpAction=Ctrl+Up
...

Theses are the only entries for [Shortcuts] because I'd like to keep all other defaults (e.g those coming up in future versions of qtractor).

Problem: Such a default kills all other shortcuts!!

So would you accept a hard-coded default?

[rncbc]

So would you accept a hard-coded default?

nope :)

all the cursor/arrow keys have already their own hard-coded procedures while on the main track view and piano-roll etc.; as said those are not suitable to be mapped as pc-keyboard shortcuts, sorry.

however you should/must set ALL possible entries in "[Shortcuts]" section of the .conf file, including the ones hard-coded in the source .ui and any of your custom assignments from Help > Shortcuts...

also, if you wish to make it a system default, suitable for package distribution for instance, I'd suggest you to make it on a system-wide configuration file, eg. "/etc/xdg/rncbc.org/Qtractor.conf", again with ALL the "[Shortcuts]" in place, not only the custom ones.

byee