Improved display of timeline tick labels

[the-liquid-metal]

As the title says.

[bartekmotyl]

Well, this is in fact a "feature". Depending on zoom level, distance between ticks becomes smaller or larger. There is a mechanism that prevents from drawing tick labels when there is not enough space. For videos shorter than 1 hour, ticks are labeled mm:ss, so take relatively small amount of space. But for longer videos, tick labels are formatted as hh:mm:ss what means more space is required to place them and in most cases they are invisible. This is maybe not a perfect mechanism, just a pragmatic solution that may be improved in the future.

Hint: one can change zoom level using control key and mouse wheel. This way one may cause even longer labels to show (but of course scrolling becomes an issue then).

[the-liquid-metal]

Well, this is in fact a "feature". Depending on zoom level, distance between ticks becomes smaller or larger. There is a mechanism that prevents from drawing tick labels when there is not enough space. For videos shorter than 1 hour, ticks are labeled mm:ss, so take relatively small amount of space. But for longer videos, tick labels are formatted as hh:mm:ss what means more space is required to place them and in most cases they are invisible. This is maybe not a perfect mechanism, just a pragmatic solution that may be improved in the future.

displaying every 2 or 3 ticks potentially solve the problem and making it consistent before and after 1 hour.

Hint: one can change zoom level using control key and mouse wheel. This way one may cause even longer labels to show (but of course scrolling becomes an issue then).

increasing/decreasing tick's width is very slowly. scrolling 3 or 4 times to become 2x of original width is common in other app.

[bartekmotyl]

displaying every 2 or 3 ticks potentially solve the problem and making it consistent before and after 1 hour.

This indeed sound like very good idea 👍

[bartekmotyl]

Implemented in version 0.20