[vorbis] Win32 multiple file tag editor?

[Glenn Maynard]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:29:03PM +1100, Warren Spits wrote:
 
> I am planning to add multiple tagging support to VorbisExt. Initially I
> would only provide support for single instances of tag when multitagging.
> Repeat tags are quite tricky. I am open to suggestions when it comes to the
> UI for this.

A start: a list-box containing tag names; those common to all open files
black on white, those only in some black on gray.  That's an extension
of what my UI does.

One hard part: making it reasonably small.  Ideally, it shouldn't have to look
much different than my regular inputs when there's only one tag; grow as
necessary when there's more.  (If it's a full-blown, heavy list box--in any
GUI style--it'll be too large, especially if you have a lot of tag types.  Clunky
interfaces suck.)

Another: making all operations (delete a tag, copy a tag to all--basically,
changing from gray to white--insert a tag, modify a tag) intuitive.

Click to select (with standard modifiers for multi), doubleclick a gray to
propagate it to all files, doubleclick a white to edit it, context menu with
delete, edit (to allow editing grayed items).  Problem: doubleclicking to edit
isn't very nice; single is preferable--it's faster, since you might be
editing a lot of tags.  I'm not sure how to make something like this
keyboard-friendly; that would make the doubleclicking problem fairly
moot.  Need a way to insert, of course--context menu is probably OK but
also not very efficient.  This would render the dropdown in 
http://zewt.org/~glenn/ed2.gif unneeded; if a group of loaded files'
artist is variously "Glen Maynard" and "Glenn Maynard", it can be fixed
simply by propagating the correct one and deleting the wrong one.

Other things to think about: you may have some data types that aren't
relevant to this, like lyrics, but you might still want to support
simple operations on them--delete all lyrics, for example--and editing
them when there's only one file open.


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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