Add osara action to show envelopes for current/last touched track/take depending on focus

[LeonarddeR]

Currently, shift+l is mapped to Track: View envelopes for current/last touched track at mouse cursor.
I propose a new action to be bound to shift+l that is context aware, showing the envelopes for the last touched/current take when the last focus action was an item/take action.
Interesting enough, I'm getting different dialogs depending on situation. When pressing shift+l from the main window, i'm getting the envelope manager window. When running the action from the actions dialog, I'm getting an envelopes window that is mostly similar, but doesn't contain the context combobox. It doesn't seem to be possible to open a take in the envelopes manager. This might be a show stopper for consistency reasons.

[jcsteh]

I'm actually a bit confused as to why we're using Track: View envelopes for current/last touched track at mouse cursor. Doesn't that mean that if the user's mouse happens to be sitting (likely unintentionally) on some track other than the current track, it will show the envelopes for that other track under the mouse? That doesn't seem ideal. At the very least, I think we should bind to Track: View envelopes for current/last touched track.

It doesn't seem to be possible to open a take in the envelopes manager.

Take: View take envelopes for last touched/first selected item seems to work here. Or do you mean something else? Even in the window that appears with View: Show envelope manager window, I can set the context to Selected item active takes.

[ScottChesworth]

Hmm I've got a dim, nagging memory of that action being chosen for a reason, can't find the thread now though, think it was way back when other people were doing the key map, could've been zapped in one of the retired iterations of REAPER Access on WhatsApp.
How about we switch to "Envelopes: View envelopes for last touched track/item"?
One weird thing with its behaviour. When I have a selection with multiple items, it opens the dialog with envelopes relevant to the first selected take, whereas with multiple tracks, it opens envelopes for the last touched track. For single selections though, it's essentially last touched.
Or if we want different behaviour, adding an OSARA action looks easy enough.

[jcsteh]

Heh, I completely missed that action. That makes perfect sense to me.

[ScottChesworth]

Maybe put it on L, move lock to Shift+L while we're at it? Improves consistency as a bunch of other unmodified keys open dialogs.

[jcsteh]

Fair, but also seems like a massive muscle memory killer for those who update their key map. I'll leave that one up to you though; you're the one that'll be fielding the majority of the complaints. 😂

[ScottChesworth]

It's been entire months since a serious professional shouted into their phone at me about key maps, I'm ready for another lil' push toward making it better.

[jcsteh]

<picks up the phone and prepares to shout>
Oh wait, I'm not a serious professional. I'm quite juvenile in fact. Never mind.

[ScottChesworth]

Unfortunately OSARA isn't hiring a juvenile to shout down the phone at me right now, got @mattymc2 handling that.

[mattymc2]

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[ScottChesworth]

Wait what? Did I jhust hear someone say OSARA supports lanes? The serious professionals are gonna love that.

[mattymc2]

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[ScottChesworth]

You're quite sarcastic, aren't you.
I like it.