FX-Mixer: Drag'n'Drop Reordering

[unfa]

What?

The idea is to make FX-mixer strips reorderable just like tracks are - using mouse drag'n'drop technique.

Why?

Sometimes I'd like to change the order of my FX-Mixer channel strips.
I like to group instruments in the FX_mixer by their function and category:

1. Drums
2. Basses
3. Pads
4. Lead
5. Special FX
   It happens, that I added a new Kickdrum that belongs to the first group, but I have to assign it to channel real-time testing branch #23 - I can't insert a new channel and offset all the rest to keep them linked and stuff.

Being able to reorder them just like instruments in the Song editor would be a great thing. Of course the numbers would change so all assigned instruments/sends should have to be updated. This could start mayhem if implemented poorly...

[diizy]

Yep, this has already been discussed I think... going to mark this for 1.1

[diizy]

Partially fixed: fx channels can now be reordered via context menu, but drag-n-drop functionality is yet to be implemented. I'll do that later...

[StakeoutPunch]

Rather than add drag and drop, would it be easier to add key shortcuts to move the selected track L/R?

[diizy]

On 05/02/2014 01:51 AM, StakeoutPunch wrote:

Rather than add drag and drop, would it be easier to add key shortcuts
to move the selected track L/R?

These are not mutually exclusive... keyboard shortcuts are a nice extra,
but they aren't very discoverable and don't fit all workflows, so they
shouldn't be the only/primary option.

[unfa]

On 1 May 2014 18:25, "Vesa V" notifications@github.com wrote:

Partially fixed: fx channels can now be reordered via context menu, but
drag-n-drop functionality is yet to be implemented. I'll do that later...

Great! That is already a big leap forward. Thank you :)

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[Sti2nd]

👍 With contextmenu you could have added the option to move 5 to right and left too, or write in how many channels.

[diizy]

This will probably have to be moved up to 1.2...

[badosu]

@unfa You can move mixers in a very fast way using <Alt-left/right> after selecting a channel.

I don't know if adding a grip to the mixers is desirable, but if it is: could you create a mockup for us to see how it would look like?

[Sti2nd]

<Alt-left/right>

wat, when, why are no one documenting this. Or rather, we don't require devs to document what they make at all, and that is stupid?

[badosu]

Hi @Sti2nd, I was surprised to find this when I was tinkering with a mixer crash. But the require sutff you said, well, do you wanna help documenting? :-)

[Sti2nd]

do you wanna help documenting?

Yes of course. FYI: I document everything I come over already, though not on one place... it is spread out over LMMS FB, the wiki and now the shortcut table.

[tresf]

could you create a mockup for us to see how it would look like?

Possible mockup (to re-use the realestate a bit):

[badosu]

Hmmm... is the top of the selected mixer used in any other way? Is this function overlapping any other that already exists?

I did not think we could do this in a nice way, but I liked your mockup, gonna try to implement this soon.

[tresf]

Is this function overlapping any other that already exists?

No that I'm aware of, but it would appear to require it to be selected to be moved which may be misleading.

[badosu]

@tresf Selecting it to move would be fine by me. It's better than having an extra grip hanging around all the time.

[tresf]

@badosu agreed and I'm not confident we can't clone the drag functionality to the title anyway. I don't really like the dedicated drag handles in software due to the amount of space they take up. I'm not sure how well this would work for Song Editor and BB Editor tracks, but whatever we decide we should be as consistent across interfaces as possible.

There's also an enhancement out there to do this drag handle up/down with the FX plugins themselves.

[tresf]

As part of a pruning effort, this enhancement request is archived into a dedicated "Better Workflow" checklist here #4877.