I was thinking that in the top row we'd list windows, and in the left column we'd list all the different combinations of Command, Option, Shift, Control, Caps-Lock, with a Click, and any other form of alternative click, such as clicking high (range) or clicking low (cell or region) in a cell in the Tracks Overview Window, or clicking with various tools, and their behaviors.
For example, in the Sequence Editor there are three types of range drags:
- 1) drag in the timeline
2) Control-Option-drag
3) I-Beam drag
Each selects a range, but with each one there is greater constraint. The first selects all tracks, for the range you drag. The 2nd selects range within the track you start in, plus any adjacent, contiguous tracks you pull down or up for. The 3rd selects a range ONLY in the track in which you start the drag.
Then there are Range ONLY selections and Event ONLY selections (Preferences/Edit/Tools/drop-down-menu), and Range & Event selections. Each alters the clicking commands a little.
There are some commands that are possible if you trick DP into accepting the Option Key, without zooming when you click. You start by holding down Command & Shift. Then add Option. If the cursor does not change to a magnifying glass, you can then release Command & Shift (or whichever one you need to release), and you get an Option-Click command that was there long before the zoom came in with its all-encompassing over-ride of the Option key commands.
Those kinds of exceptions are good to know.
Might also put some window-specific commands or actions (not just clicks) such as lines mode, bar mode, and point mode in the MIDI Editor, or the Soundbite Replacement option/menu in the Event List.
Rather than a commands-guide, it might become more of a DP-Windows guide. Or both. It's time that all the information of that type should appear in one place.
If we were to work on it together, what would be the best app for it? Excel? Numbers? I like the database in Excel, along with the ability to include links and pictures you can click for external access to files.I also like the formatting flexibility in Excel. I haven't used Numbers in a couple versions, so I don't know if they've added any more features, but it used to be pretty bare-bones. I'd go with Excel, personally, but if others were going to work on it, they might not own Excel.
I was also thinking about doing it in Illustrator.
Shoosh