Song Order Panel Suggestions

Sorry if these have been brought up already:

  1. Regardless of which theme I’m using, I often find it hard to identify which pattern is being viewed. Renoise is a high-res program, and I have very good eyesight, but I often have to look carefully before I see it. If it’s going to be displayed this way, the frame around the selected pattern really should be a different colour to the rest of the framework, and if it could surround the name of the pattern too, that would be even better.

  2. Dragging patterns around the order list isn’t very user-friendly either, and it’s hard to tell when a pattern’s going to be dragged or not. For me, it is trial and error every time. Could we please have the pointer change to a hand when drag mode is activated?

  3. Also, in the pattern view, the hand icon probably shouldn’t appear until we hold down the mouse button over a track header - as it is, the ability to name tracks is not obvious to a new user.

  4. Finally, why do WAVs appear when disk-browsing songs? I don’t see the point, especially since they load as samples. They kind of clutter things up.

edit: I have a face! haha

  1. not much trouble with this one myself, but it’s imaginable.
  2. I hope you mean dragging selections. for a time I didn’t manage to drag them. I now know I was to quick. you have to click, wait a second, and when the little icon appears you can drag it.
  3. I really think the pointer should become a writer (I) thingie when you go over the textbox, this way it’s more clear you can enter text here.
  4. I think it has to do with the new XRNS format.
    it’s very handy because you can load samples out of songs without loading the whole song. hit the + in front of the song and there are the used samples neatly listed, ready to load.