Towards a more efficient Scale Highlighting selector

[Phoqust]

As I noted in another topic here in To Do, not only is Scale Highlighting not project-tied, it's also not very easy to use. The two-column flyout menu on the Piano Roll requires you to precisely select THREE menu items at once (the arrow, View, Scale Highlighting) just to see the current scale highlight selection. Then you can select either the Root Note or the Mode, but not both, since the menu disappears as soon as you make a selection. You then have to go through the whole clumsy menu tree all over again to make the other selection.

My first suggestion is that the two-column menu can be replaced with a menu of just the root notes, with the same radio-button circles, each of which contains an identical flyout that contains the mode menu. This way, if you've got to drill down through the menu, you can at least get the root and mode in one go. The Root Note menu could indicate the current root and mode in a header.

However, the dropdown menu on the Piano Roll is massively overloaded to begin with, so it's probably time to remove Scale Highlighting from that menu altogether and move it somewhere more accessible and intuitive. Right-clicking a piano key on the left side of the Piano Roll could bring up the Modes list. Hover over a mode, and the change is previewed on the Piano Roll. Click one of the modes, and the change sticks. Click away from the dropdown, and the Scale Highlighting remains unchanged.

[Audiobusters]

Phoqust wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 8:12 am You ca...

[Phoqust]

Thanks for the right-click vs. left-click trick...

[davor242]

Oh, the right click was new to me too. Still....

[villageboi]

Yes scale highlighting should be more accessibl...