Re: [jokosher-devel] Six weeks till the freeze

["Jono Bacon" <jonobacon gmail com>]

On 9/19/06, John Green <john thegreens co uk> wrote:
> Fixing seek is easy but not committed due to some other stuff that isn't
> finished. That's getting J to scroll automatically during playback and using
> the ff/rew buttons and making stop pause rather than returning to the start.
> This is nearly ready. I have a slight glitch with getting effect previews to
> work whilst the playhead isn't at the start and I hope to sort this out this
> week. I have a question on this. It makes sense to me to be able to preview
> effects from anywhere in the project. Once the effects dialogue is dismissed
> should the playhead return to where it was before the dialogue was
> displayed?

I would reckon so. So, the playhead it at lets say 1.22, and you hit
the effects dialog, add a few effects and do some previews. When you
close the effects dialog, the playhead returns to 1.22. :)

> Note that the scope of the autoscrolling that I'm doing doesn't include
> scrolling whilst dragging the playhead to the edge of the window. With our
> current design this would involve far too many redisplays and hit
> performance. Maybe we could buffer the timeline and wave views either side
> of the view window and scroll within that (a bit like Google maps). Any
> ideas???

I don't know much about the GUI events stuff, but buffering seems a
sane option. If this is going to involve substantial re-factoring of
the code, it may be wise to leave it till 0.3, but if we can squeeze
it into 0.2, that would be great. :)

 Jono