[Kdenlive-devel] Finally, a few keyboard shortcuts.

[Rolf Dubitzky]

On Monday 28 April 2003 15:41, Jason Wood wrote:
> > A little thinking is no problem, once in a while ... ;-)
> >
> > <play> accepts currently three options (kdenserver.cc:180)
> > start, stop, speed. I think speed doesn't work right now,
> > but start and stop should work. Isn't that what you need
> > for the in/out points?
>
> Oh, in that case there is no problem whatseover - I'm forgetting what has
> and hasn't been done :-)

Great. Let me know if it works.

> > For the looping, it would be trivial to add another option:
> >  <play loop="1">
>
> I think this is the best solution as well. My only concern is that we might
> end up with a bloated play command if we continue adding options to it.
> It's not that important from a bandwidth point of view - it's only called
> occasionally compared to other commands, although this may change when we
> want to have variable speed playback (think a jog wheel widget of some
> description).
>
> Of course, there is no reason why every single attribute has to be defined,
> so this may not be an issue.
>
> What do you think?

I don't want a bloated syntax, too, but with the additional 'loop' attribute, 
<play> has four attributes. I don't think that's bloated.

Cheers,
Rolf

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