Feature request: "Goto" in Label Editor

[Gale Andrews]

can someone please clarify what (if any) is the FR here?

I will count these votes unless someone contradicts (or changes the count number):

• Label Editor should not change the track selection (3 votes)
• Ability to select multiple labels for action in the editor, such as "Remove" (as a separate action from giving focus to a cell in a label row to move to that label in the track) (2 votes)
• Search function for labels in Labels Editor (1 votes)

Gale

[DickN]

I would add to these three a change to have the label editor change the select region only on command (e.g., a new "goto" button).

[Gale Andrews]

I would add to these three a change to have the label editor change the select region only on command

I'm guessing most people especially VI users use Label Editor to navigate to labels so won't want an extra command to go to a label.

I agree there may be cases where you just want to look at an overview of the labels and not have Audacity move the selection to the first label as soon as you open the editor, as it does now.

(e.g., a new "goto" button).

It may actually be quite hard to program having Audacity edit the labels without moving the cursor or selection there - after all you manually edit a label by moving there. Has Steve verified it could be done?

And as above, I think the default should be to move to the label when you give focus to the cell.

One solution without radically changing the way the editor works now could be a checkbox

Code: Select all

[ ] Restore selection on close 

Gale

[DickN]

I'm guessing most people especially VI users use Label Editor to navigate to labels so won't want an extra command to go to a label.

My reasoning is that if one wanted to edit a label without changing the (possibly unlabled and not locked) current region, the Label Editor ought to be a place where this could be done. A bit of irony here, in my original post I didn't even know that this happens and now I'm lamenting that there's no way to prevent it. Yeah, some of us would like to have it both ways. I for one am pretty accustomed to opening Preferences fairly routinely to change or verify settings like "editing a clip can move other clips", etc. so relegating this to a setting wouldn't be a major issue.

[Gale Andrews]

I'm guessing most people especially VI users use Label Editor to navigate to labels so won't want an extra command to go to a label.

My reasoning is that if one wanted to edit a label without changing the (possibly unlabled and not locked) current region, the Label Editor ought to be a place where this could be done.

I agree, though it may only be practical to do it by moving the selection to the label then restoring the selection on close.

in my original post I didn't even know that this happens and now I'm lamenting that there's no way to prevent it. Yeah, some of us would like to have it both ways.

So it ought to be a preference or an option in the Labels Editor dialogue.


Gale

[Robert J. H.]

In my opinion, the editor should be promoted in the direction of a normal file/folder display (e.g. like in the Windows Explorer).
It is essentially just a table with at least 3 columns.
On opening, nothing is selected. Moving the cursor selects one label (with focus). A mouse click, ctrl-space or "select none" deselects anything and pressing OK will restore the previous selection. On the other hand, the selected label defines the selection after closing.
There can of course more than one label be selected, at least if they build a continuous block.
Needless to say that there are a lot of additional commands that would interact with the selection, e.g. Play, Splice, Toggle Region/Point Label and so on.