The goal is to preserve a consistent layout and sizing of the buttons.
Button height should not resize based on text, because font styles differ and this leads to inconsistent button heights
Button width should not be based on text or font size; instead, font size just determines how many chars will be visible in the button
There are some elements of the editor page which _do_ scale based on the text width, and thats probably sensible because the text is predefined, and needs to fit
TODO: needs undo. only works in top quarter of automation lane. selection model feels weird sometimes. needs to show gain curve when you are using Range tool
Consistent mixer strip button height.
The latter works by setting all the button size request heights to the
calculated height of the alphabet. Thus, all buttons of the same class will be
the same height regardless of their actual text.
All the different looks here didn't seem to convey anything useful to me, and
looked sloppy. I went with the style of the transport button.
It would be nice if we could style button elements like Inset in the
configuration, but this would require some work.
Refactor comments dialog into Route_UI so it can be shared by tracks and strips.
Make Color and Comments selections consistent in the menus
Refine the color displays at the top of each mixer strip
Correctly color the number displays on tracks
However, keep the path for deletions in the editor-mixer via _entered_mixer_strip
TODO: if nothing was deleted, assume the user was trying to delete something in the editor instead
Show selected plugins by a red border
TODO: more work on the selection model for plugins and mixer strips
This had to be hacked because the editor_mixer strip is on the editor and doesnt respond to mixer keybindings.
Also force the gain intry to lose focus if the user leaves the mixer strip. this will probably solve some long-standing complaints. although perhaps a more elegant solution is possible.
This will be used when you paste with Ripple; it maintains the whitespace that you chose in the selection.
Also fix default setting of Dim contol by storing the default(normal) value for MPControl Controllables.
