[LAU] file browser in qtractor?

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Mysth-R wrote:
> 2008/10/14 Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org>
> 
>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R wrote:
>>>
>>>> Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from any files browser. This is
>>>> not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
>>>> In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
>>>> a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
>>>> button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
>>>> Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
>>> Ardour has the preview button on its own file browser but that is mostly
>>> because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
>>> metadata.
>>>
>>> Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
>>> support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
>>> think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
>>> app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
>>>
>> fwiw, qtractor also has a preview button (audio only): it's that little
>> blue triangle at the bottom-right of the audio file list widget ;)
>> double-clicking on an audiofile item also triggers the preview (or
>> should it be pre-listening?) feature
> 
> 
> Oh yeah of course, but this is only for sounds you already imported in
> Qtractor, isn't it ?
> 

yeah, right :) by drag-n-dropping a file into qtractor you're also
adding it to the file list (besides, "import" is not the right word for
the whole operation, but you get the idea:)

cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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