CompuServe Thread

Brick, Thanks for the 1.30b! It does work well. JKJ and I were talking about the PAR and I mentioned that it would be great to have the time and date data displayed on the PAR drive files (I end up with so many segments and clips; its difficult to remember what the heck they are). JKJ made a better suggestion which I thought I'd relay to you: Could we have a comment line attached somehow to each file name? Perhaps with a toggle button to display all comment lines below the file name or maybe a double click on the file name would display the comment line. It sure would be a great help. Alec Jason

>>How is the new scrub bar? It's a bit better, but I still like the old one much more. The old one allowed me to easily and accurately drag the slider through an animation of any length, at any speed, matching my mouse movement exactly, forward or backwards, and in a single mouse move. This simply does not happen with the new code. To drag through a 1200 frame animation at a casual pace, I have to drag the slider 12 inches (I measured, and 12 inches only gets me 1/4 of the way through), let go, wait 2.5 seconds for the cursor to reappear, drag again…. for a total of FOUR times. I'm sorry, but that's just plain silly. Also, The DOS file slider does not conform with the same sliders in any other software I've used. For example, in a windows file selector, open to a directory with 1300 files. if files 0 thru 9 are in the window, then a click in the bar should bring up files 9 thru 19 (or 10 – 20), and another click would bring up 19 thru 29, and so on. Why does every click in the PAR's file slider drop down 130 or so files in the same 1300 file directory? Is this an amiga thing? I ask because every other DOS file selector in every other DOS or Win program I have will move down the list by one page per click. In the same directory, a normal file slider, if dragged will let you go from the very top of the list to the very end, and the mouse sensitivity will not change so the entire range of files can be accessed with a single mouse movement. Easy. The Par slider, once again makes things much more difficult. I just did some tests, and in the same 1300 file directory, I had to click, drag 12 inches, release, and repeat for a total of TEN times just to get to the bottom of the list!! That's TEN FEET of mouse travel to drag through the directory. Why is it set up this way? Basically, it takes alot of seemingly unnecessary time to select a specific file in the middle of a large directory with the par software, while the same action in other programs is simple (drag the slider where you want in a single move, maybe click in the bar once or twice, and that's it). The way it's set up now just seems strange. BTW, smaller directories are easier to navigate, but as the file count goes up, things get more difficult. David PS: I don't know if you'll check in here soon, so I'll send a copy of this message to your Net address. PS: PS: Has anyone else noticed this, or am I just going nuts?