Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

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Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostThu May 26, 2022 9:05 am

when using tabbed timelines. It's way too easy to close a timeline, with no message like "are you sure you want to close this timeline" when moving the playhead.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostThu May 26, 2022 2:38 pm

Never had this problem myself.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostThu May 26, 2022 3:01 pm

breadman6 wrote:when using tabbed timelines. It's way too easy to close a timeline, with no message like "are you sure you want to close this timeline" when moving the playhead.


a confirmation message would be seriously annoying.

Also, looking at tabbed timelines, there's a huge area for where you can activate the playhead, I don't know how you can be accidentally closing timelines with any kind of regularity.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostFri May 27, 2022 8:28 am

I suppose I'm referring to when you want to drag the playhead, you'd click and hold the top splayed part of the playhead instead of trying to accurately grab the narrow portion below. When you click and grab the top, yes, you are dangerously close to x-ing out a tabbed timeline. Which I have done in the wee hours of the night. And if you miss that, and don't cmd-z it, you could lose some hard earned edits.

So, I really don't see why a message prompt would be that annoying. How many milliseconds of your work flow is consumed by closing tabbed timelines? And, how about just being able to turn it off in settings, so butterfingered people like me can not screw things up as easily?
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostFri May 27, 2022 12:08 pm

I like this proposition.
It doesn't bother me too much but I had it happening to me many times too.
Having larger tabs and the X further away is a good idea.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostFri May 27, 2022 6:10 pm

Tom Early wrote:a confirmation message would be seriously annoying.
Agreed. It's simple enough to re-open a timeline if you close it accidentally.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostSat May 28, 2022 6:33 am

No, Jim Simon. It's only easy to reopen a closed timeline if you noticed it being closed and don't accidentally save and close the project after doing a bunch of editing. Then you'd have to restore to a backup to an earlier point. I just said that.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostSat May 28, 2022 1:28 pm

A confirmation popup for closing tabs? It's a bad idea.

If I had this on my internet browser (and couldn't deactivated it) I would go crazy.
Imagine having to close 40 tabs (or 10 in Resolve) we a confirmation popup for each?
If it's another option in the user preferences and it is not activated by default, why not.

Nah.

I think the first request with moving the X further away is enough. Even that won't do much imo. I closed tabs by mistake instead of changing their position... and sometimes I have 10-15 of them in Resolve, between the compound clips or fusion clips. I was pretty rare. But I would not be bothered if the tabs were wider with the X further away.

Closing a tab with the middle-mouse click is how it's done anyway.
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Re: Move 'close' (x) button further away from playhead

PostSat May 28, 2022 3:09 pm

breadman6 wrote:Then you'd have to restore to a backup.
Closing a timeline doesn't delete it. Just double-click and open it again. At any time.
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