Anyone want timeline to compress vertically when reducing timeline window height?

• Mar 22, 2018 - 05:03

Notice how Sibelius's timeline will compress the instruments vertically when reduce vertical height:

https://youtu.be/LnIXstYtLfE?t=2m54s

Note the instrument's names get smaller (even past when they're too small to read) as the height of each instrument row is reduced. The way we currently have timeline is to make it vertically scroll if the height is too small to fit all rows.

Now I can't remember what exactly we joshua and I discussed last summer to come to the conclusion to have it vertically scroll. Maybe I was even for vertically scrolling back then (I'd have to look at internet logs for that), but I'm feeling now with large scores that squeezing might be preffered. But I can imagine some people sometimes might want the height of each row fixed so can read the instrument names, in which case it would have to scroll as it currently does. Maybe have an option for a minimum height (user could tweak based their preference), whereby further reducing the timeline window height would result in scroll-bar being used.

I'm also just envisioned in my head now that maybe could also allow the meta-rows above to compress vertically, maybe after the instrument rows have reached some hardcoded minimum pixel height (or maybe the other way around). As they compress, the metarow titles on the left would get smaller like sibelius's instrument labels do. But I don't think the element boxes on the right should be made smaller (in which case their text become unreadable). Rather I could imagine the element boxes to gradually overlap eachother, and if the window height is made too small to only support one meta-row, at that point the meta-rows would collapse into one row (the way they currently appear when you press the "Measures" textbox in the timeline.

And maybe could selectively sqeeze/compress either the meta-rows or the instrument rows. Maybe dragging the line below the measure row downward would compress the instrument rows, and dragging that up would expand the instrument rows (until reach standard row height). And similarly for the line above the measure row...dragging upward would compress the meta-rows, and dragging that down would expand the meta-rows (until reach standard row height).

I say all this because I've been trying out 3.0 w/ timeline on my small-screened chromebook, and so want to make it more usable for small screens and many-instrument scores.


Comments

I'm also thinking factory reset state should have the meta-rows collapsed, since I think they take up too much space and not really needed when starting off with the initial 1-instrument score.

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