Re: Manually moving through snapshots

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Manually moving through snapshots

Anonymous 07-17-2007, 18:52
Hi Guys,

Please disregard the suggestion in my previous message i.e.

"There does not appear to be any way of moving through the snapshots manually one at a time. What about providing forward/backward buttons to enable this?"

Before posting I tried all manner of arrow/control key combination, and it wouldn't work ... posted, went back and tried again and it worked fine. Perhaps it had something to do with the timebar not being the focused control. Sorry for the false alarm.

Best regards

Steve

Re: Manually moving through snapshots

rcollings 01-10-2008, 11:39
I was just about to post on a related topic but I will add my comments here instead.

The problem with the current approach is that the focus needs to be on timebar for the left and right arrows to work.

This has a number of disadvantages:<br>
1) For beginners such as Steve (and myself), it wasn't clear how to do this stepping
2) If the focus is not on the timebar, you have to either use the TAB key to move the focus; or click on the timebar using the mouse (which may move the current snapshot)
3) It is too easy for the timebar to lose the focus (and this is what I was going to post about). In particular, if you have clicked on the Play button to review a sequence and then click on the Pause, the Timebar does not then have focus, so if you want to step backwards or forwards from where you have stopped, you have to use the Tab key again to get the focus onto the Timebar.

So, my suggestion would be have two hotkeys designated for next/prev image which work irrespective of current focus. Ctrl+Left (or right) arrow would be my choice.

Re: Manually moving through snapshots

Anonymous 05-08-2008, 7:06
ditto for me. I was unaware of the existing arrow key functionality until I came here to post the suggestion.

I can't think of any reason why this should not have similar playback controls to video or media players: Start, Rev, Play/Pause, FFwd. That's a well-understood paradigm most users would grasp intuitively.

Re: Manually moving through snapshots

AtliB 05-10-2008, 15:55
Thanks all,
We finally got around to do this so it will be released in the upcoming v. 3.1 version.

Cheers
Atli

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Re: Manually moving through snapshots

animal 06-11-2008, 6:47

AtliB wrote:
We finally got around to do this so it will be released in the upcoming v. 3.1 version.

Erm, how about a v. 3.0 first? ;)

I haven't read anything about that yet....

But then I was a way for a while and I'm only just starting to catch up again on the forum...

Is there something like a (public) roadmap of planned releases and features? I think I saw a v 3.2 mentioned on another thread as well.

Cheers,

Oliver

Re: Manually moving through snapshots

AtliB 07-05-2008, 13:47
Hello all!

Happy to report that this feature has been implemented in v. 3.1

Happy snapping!

Thanks
Atli