this is something which has annoyed me since a long time, but for some reason I’m reporting it only now: when you undo/redo something, a message like “Undoing something…” appears at the bottom of the application. I would like that, when the undo/redoing has been completed, a new message like “Undoing something completed!” appears.
not having this can be confusing, expecially when the undo/redo operation affects something which is not currently visible (for example, a line on a pattern which is different from the currently shown one).
Normally undoing redoing is so fast that you would only see “undoing Bla is done”. What we IMHO should do instead is showing a Renoise is busy cursor on the undo/redo operations that take a long time.
both are needed in my opinion: showing hourglass cursor AND a “completed” message: the message is needed exactly because the operation is most of times so fast that you don’t even understand it has been already completed, and you start to wonder if it has ended, as the “work in progress” message will still be shown for some seconds.
if this doesn’t cost you lot of work, please add this message.
Yes, I thought about that to, a history list. The undo/redo as it is now is very hard to use in more than one step because it is very hard to get an overview over what will happen etc and the operation is also very slow sometimes so if you press ctrl-z a few times it can take several seconds before the operation is finished and suddenly you have lost track of where you were
Photoshops undo is the best implementation in any software I have ever used…
To have the ability to undo anything at anystage, with out being bound to a chronological order would be amazing.
For the time being, even a number list would be ace, counting down to 0 for the amount of things that can be undone. I do imagine this would get out of hand pretty damn fast though…
Yeah. it is a bit strange that the message “undoing something” just stands there for 8 seconds or so. As if it was actually undoing anything! I support the “completed” + hourglass suggestion