918577 - dragging a large chunk of track events might not keep their shape

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Popcorn Maker, defect)

Description

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

This is more of a UX thing.

Recently I was playing around with a project, and had 30 seconds, with 6 5 second segments in the project.

At this point I noticed I wanted to add another segment to the start.

So, I added 5 seconds to my duration, easy.

I then selected all the track events, and attempted to drag them all to the right.

At this point, when they collided, the overlapped, and when dropped would ghost below, instead of the the left.

I'm not sure how to solve this one quite yet. Probably just need smart ghosting, where it should be ghosted to the side that is closest.

Another option is do not let any dragging track events overlap with other dragging track events.

I'm leaning towards the first one as because it has more uses outside of just fixing the above use case. It is just all in all more helpful to the user for lining up track events whil dragging if they go to the most logical place.

Comment 2

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

I gave this a stab today, to keep them in shape if one collides with a boundry, and it was a bit hairy. Probably not worth it.

Comment 3

[Chris DeCairos (:cade)]

Popcorn Maker is no longer under active development.

https://learning.mozilla.org/blog/product-update-for-appmaker-and-popcorn-maker