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How can I navigate nondestructively of current window content?
David353:
Maybe I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, but I'm having serious convenience problems with the JRiver GUI.
It seems that if I click on what I'm calling the Navigation Pane on the left (I don't know if that's your official name for it), it shows the contents of that item I've clicked on, in what I'll call the Current Tab. In other words, the Current Tab now starts looking at what I've clicked on.
Sometimes though, I don't want to lose what is in the Current Tab. Unfortunately, the Current Tab WAS looking at is now GONE from the current tab. If I want to find it, it seems I have to navigate for it again. This is a pain. No, back-arrow on the tab doesn't work -- it really seems to 'throw away' the former viewpoint of that tab. I don't want my navigation in the navigation pane to be destructive like this -- I don't want it to create a condition from which it is a pain to recover from.
Can I stop this from happening? One way I know is, Yes, by SUSTAINED FORESIGHT -- by protecting myself in advance by knowing that whenever I navigate, I need to have selected a window whose current viewpoint I am prepared to lose. But one should not have to have sustained foresight to operate a GUI
Surely I am doing something wrong? Surely there is some other way to recover quickly from this problem?
Thanks.
David353:
I'm making lots of playlists. I'm a tango DJ, and I have to search through many, many audio files, often construct playlists from old playlists and so on.
It absolutely doesn't work for me that one click on the navigation pane is irrecoverably destructive of the viewpoint of a current pane.
David353:
Let me create an analogy to the experience I'm having. It's like I'm working on a desktop with a filing cabinet to the side. I need to take out several files at once and work with them on the desktop, and must cross-process them in various ways.
Here's the freaky thing: if I touch the filing cabinet at all -- open any drawer, look into any drawer, then LAST FILE I WAS PROCESSING on my desktop disappears from my desktop and is instantly and invisibly filed deeo in the cabinet again, wherever it was. If I want to use it again on the desktop, I have to browse the filing cabinet for it again. It may not actually be easy for me to even know where it was.
In other words, the act of browsing the file cabinet cause files to vanish from the desktop back into the file cabinet!
Obviously, this isn't an easy and intuitive way of working.
RD James:
Have you tried split views?
You can also middle-click to open views in a new tab rather than replacing the current tab.
JimH:
You could copy and paste files to a new playlist, even a temp playlist.
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