Spacebar Collisions, auto focusing typeahead, and other quirks

[shatva]

Greetings!

"Spacebar" and should reissued with selecting behavior, with (insert button behavior) or without focus to next item, (like on sticky selection) and with calculate directory size on the same time (norton commander, TC behavior). It is an essential commander behavior for ages. And the base of precision keyboard mass file managing.

The windows explorer half mouse half keyboard half-breed windows explorer, and norton commander behavior cause the following quirks

Focusing-Selecting:
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-Disable focus-and select on the same time. I know its a "windows explorer" like behavior, but it is not related when you use keyboard.

Livefind autofocus, and enabled navigation collisions.

"Spacebar" collisions
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Solution:
-"Spacebar" should ignored when use live filter box or typeahead auto focus, (do not search empty "space") ! Do we need to find spacebar related? Or search start with space?

-Collision when try to use "sticky selection" with "spacebar" , you simple loose your selection focus!

-collision when use audio preview inside info panel.

-More collision when use with auto play, play next, loop features

Workaround:
1 option to turn of sticky selection, and use windows explorer like crippled selection with keyboard, constantly pressed "ctrl" when focusing, "+Alt" for select the next focus. Not easy workaround.

2 Without live filter typeahead autofocus it works better but for a bit sake of performance.

-Sticky selection cause misbehavior when selecting directories and press "enter" it open all selected "windows explorer" windows!?

Solution:

Just it should "enter" on the "focused" directory "item".

Selective focus:
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Focus should move only main panes with "Tab", or Tree, without "live filter box" (with cursor, even if turned off on status bar, it automatically turn back on and get focus).Little blinking focus on live filter box, when focusing automatically anyway seems redundant.
...After autofocus live filter turned off it working much better.

-Tree selecting bar should follow node , breadcumb bar color, for more consistent user experience!

-Automatically disable folder size calculating in Branch View to avoid slow unresponsive stalled hourglass moments on large audio or music sample libraries..

Audio Media Preview:
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-Audio Preview on "Info panel" taking off huge space vertically, It could be mutch thinner get no space, with keyboard shortcuts, and horizontaly a bit larger playbar.

-When browsing a audio library and use seek forward, backward the preview pane is not keyboard friendly. Cannot change shortcut for play, seek command. and there is no command for play once, play next, play loop.


-Wait xxx ms before play next next, loop, again...

Live find Box autofocus behavior solutions:
-When narrowing down namelist and typeahead focus jumping, but it wont let you write not related words. Every letter it is narrowing down the search and name list with highlights and jumping focus on the last pressed buttons. Let only type related search on the next letters on the narrowed names. Not let you lost with empty panes! (TC behavior)

Wishes:

-audio BWF Wav Tagger, column sorting support

Happy XYploring for all!

[admin]

Hm.

[I moved this thread to Wishes. I wish I would understand it.]