Clearer area-item selection
TLDR; the main problem I want to see addressed is this: area selection within items is visually unclear, especially when compared with another primary software I use for audio, Pro Tools.
I've been thinking about how to phrase this one for a little while. Initially I had thought that what I wanted was some kind of separate i-beam tool, but then, no, after messing around with mouse modifiers and actions and such, that proved unnecessary...
I then thought about how it might be helpful to have the option to invert colors on item area selections like in Pro Tools. I still think this is not a bad idea, but it could foreseeably make things complicated with spectral peaks, maybe (?).
At the end of the day, though, I don't know exactly what the best solution is. I just know that, despite all of my theme tweaks, I still find item area selection to be pretty unclear. The visual information IS there, but it's not as intuitive as in, say, Pro Tools, where it is absolutely impossible not to see what sections of items are currently selected.
Pro Tools swaps the color of the waveform and the media item background during selection of items or areas within items, which is what I mean when I say that its area selections are "inverted". I think this would be much clearer than the best I've been able to find so far, which is just 2x "a little brighter".
To iterate on that last point, the problem seems to be that area selection in general is already "a little brighter", which is fine, but when you need one more level of specificity - i.e., what portion of an item is selected - stacking on yet more lightness is not as clear as the PT solution of actually getting darker by applying the inversion of waveform and background mentioned above.
If anyone knows of a good solution to this that's already existing, or if they have questions about what I mean, please let me know! This might not be a huge deal, but I also think it could be easily changed - not that I know much about coding - and improve the quality of visual conveyance within the software considerably.
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