MIDI editor: Mouse-click deselects all events, no matter what action specified

[juliansader]

In the MIDI piano roll, a left-click automatically deselects all events, even though "No action" (or any other action, even "Deselect all *notes*") has been specified as the default action for mouse modifiers.

This, especially combined with the ages-old bug that single-click mouse actions are always squeezed in before double-click or drag actions (http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=115287, http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=175881) limits MIDI note and CC editing possibilities.

(REAPER v5.201)

EDIT: REAPER v5.25 fixed the problem of automatic deselection when "No action" is specified, but the MIDI editor still inappropriately deselects in many other Action / mouse modifier combinations, as discussed below.

[ELP]

yes that´s true and nerves me since a very long time.
No Action should be No action, but always deselect all Notes is one..
and always combine
-except insert Note leave other selected-
deselect with all other things is not the way it should work.

and yes the same of course with double clicks.. etc. pp

this behavior should really be changed.

[noise_construct]

+1

for whatever it's worth

[ceanganb]

+1, have to undo or create shortcuts for positioning mouse. Inconsistent.

[juliansader]

It is relevant to note that in the MIDI editor's new notation view, single left-click does NOT automatically deselect all events.

I hope this implies that fixing the bug in the piano roll will not be an insurmountable challenge.

[schwa]

Fixed for the next build, thanks.

[noise_construct]

Originally Posted by schwa

Fixed for the next build, thanks.

Excellent, thank you!

[juliansader]

This bug has been partly fixed in v5.24 and v5.25 for most of the MIDI editor's mouse modifier contexts:
+ MIDI editor: do not deselect events unless piano roll left-click mouse modifier is set to deselect (which it is, by default) [t=177858]

However, it is still occurring in (at least) three contexts:

Left-click on MIDI note
In the "MIDI note" context, (almost) all the left-click mouse modifiers still deselect all events, even if "No action" is specified. Strangely, some of the actions do not deselect, such as "Toggle note selection", or as FnA found:

Originally Posted by FnA

[B]--Split notes on grid (from Action List) on ALT WIN does not deselect first.

Double-click in CC lane
As reported in the thread In the MIDI editor CC lane, double-click + modifier deselects events before calling Action.

Double-click click on CC event

[juliansader]

The fact that double-clicking deselects all events before calling its Action, means that double-click + mouse modifier cannot be used to call any Action that depends on, or is supposed to manipulate, selected events in the last-clicked CC lane.

If this bug can be fixed, many of Kawa's nifty CC editing scripts could be linked to mouse modifiers.

[juliansader]

Some progress was made on this bug two years ago, but then it just diminuendoed al niente...

EDIT: As noted above, the automatic deselection means that mouse modifiers cannot be used to call any Action that depends on, or is supposed to manipulate, selected events in the MIDI editor.

[SergeiSobchenko]

Huge +1

[_Stevie_]

+1 from me as well!

[reapero]

+1000!!

[_Stevie_]

needs a bump