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Since v6.62 pressing the spacebar button while in a plugin text box actually types in a space instead of starting to play.
For example, open ReaEQ, type "300" in a band frequency and press spacebar, Reaper will now type in a space after the "300" instead of starting/stopping the playback. This might seem like a minor detail but it's a HUGE time waste as it accumulates over a mix. Setting the spacebar shortcut to "global+text" isn't a solution since it prevents you from typing a space anywhere, including track names, file names etc. |
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Perhaps map shift+space as a global shortcut and get used to using that in text fields?
Or map space and get used to using shift+space when you want to enter a space… |
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Unfortunately Shift+space is already mapped on my setup to play action (like a play/replay instead of the normal play/stop). So I’m using both shortcut all the time. But regardless, this change seems a bit strange to me, is there even a single user that benefits being able to type a space in plugin input fields? Why was this changed? |
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The space bar have always worked for me in places where it was actually needed. Besides, I would bet you tweak plugin parameters about 1000 times more often than you save a preset or something like that, don’t you think? |
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Anyway, I generally assume that a text box isn't "finished" until you've clicked or returned or tabbed out of it. Maybe space used to work for that, too? I do agree that spaces in a number box aren't logical. But that field has focus, not the transport, so I would probably just ignore the space entirely (if it were my software) which would probably annoy people even more. :-)
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And yes the field has focus, yet it still worked just fine for the last hundreds of versions. |
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We'll make the old behavior optional (it has downsides -- plug-ins that want to let you enter text will force you to figure something else out for spacebar -- the reason why we changed this, a request from a plugin developer).
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(BTW, Windows here, no Mac). Thanks devs!
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Agreed!
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