discopex wrote:Meanwhile, it is somewhat quicker to drag the 'All music' icon to the sidebar, saves you an extra click.
This was the missing piece to the puzzle for me!
I came up with, IMO, a pretty good solution for a global search thanks to you discopex!
I managed to map 'Command+A' to go to my entire collection and mapped 'Command+S' to search.
Here's a quick tutorial for anyone who is interested.
First things first just drag the tracks icon in your collection into the side bar (aka "node dock") so it looks like this..
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Then go into Cross's preferences, then to the keyboard tab and use the x2 button in the bottom left to duplicate the generic keyboard mapping you use and make it editable (Or implement this command into your own custom keyboard mapping).
Then you want to select the newly duplicated keyboard mapping and scroll down to the 'Tracks Racks' menu.
Screen Shot 2014-04-08 at 5.24.27 PM.png
The two commands I added are 'Preform Secondary Action on Active Browsable" and "Browse Node Dock"
commandS+commandA.jpg
So now if you are browsing a playlist and need to search your whole collection it's as easy as hitting command+A then command+S.
I should note that the command+S will only search when you are browsing within the track window, if you go into the tree window it no longer functions.
Also if the setting for your command A does not select the all tracks icon try changing the number as it might not always be exactly like my setup.
-Hawn Solo
**A quick update**
I ran into some weirdness using command+a (it was sometimes selecting all tracks in the track browser and not going to my all tracks icon on the sidebar), so I changed it to control+a.
It works great now and always goes to my all tracks icon, no matter where I have last clicked.
Also there was some weirdness when I mapped some key commands using control, the little icon in the key map editor would only display 'cntrl + ', with no letter afterward, however it is still functioning correctly.
I managed to also map control+c to bring my back to the collection icon on the sidebar, which brings me right back to the last playlist I had open prior to hitting control+a.
Now the only thing that I can see that is needed is a search command that I can map to a key command that will work no mater where I have clicked last, though this works great for now.
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