EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW

[Martyn Shaw-2]

Hi there

Why don't we turn on EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW?  Or even make it
mainstream?  It's a useful feature that allows user to select which
view they have when Audacity starts (Spectum, Waveform (dB) etc.).  It
does not appear to have any bugs in it.  (But yet another 'feature'
some would say, cluttering up the prefs, I'm sure.)

I've seen discussion here that the vertical viewing mode of tracks
should be preserved between sessions, and I've argued that it's a
per-track thing.  This is a halfway-house solution that's already in
the code (thanks to Andreas, who did a load of stuff and then moved on).

So does anybody have an objection to me turning it on (and
subsequently making it mainstream)?  I'll give it a few days for
responses.

TTFN
Martyn

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[Roger Dannenberg]

When I saw the subject line, I thought this might be about a different
feature: It would be great if you could load up some files for viewing,
change the underlying file with another program, and select "refresh" or
"reload" to see the changed version. A more elaborate form of this is to
allow a program to specify input files, a region of time, and track view
parameters via some sort of descriptor file. For debugging audio
software or browsing experimental data, it's really great to have a
visual display, but setting up the view over and over  can be a pain.
Does anything like this exist?


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[Gale Andrews]

| From Martyn Shaw <martynshaw99@...>
| Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:53:37 +0100
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW
> Why don't we turn on EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW?  Or even make it
> mainstream?  It's a useful feature that allows user to select which
> view they have when Audacity starts (Spectum, Waveform (dB) etc.).  It
> does not appear to have any bugs in it.  (But yet another 'feature'
> some would say, cluttering up the prefs, I'm sure.)

I'm in favour of course, as per my recent suggestion that we could do
either. Leland then said (23rd of last month) that he'd looked through
the code and thought we could make it mainstream, so I don't know
whether he's already close to doing this. And Richard said yes too.  


> I've seen discussion here that the vertical viewing mode of tracks
> should be preserved between sessions, and I've argued that it's a
> per-track thing.  This is a halfway-house solution that's already in
> the code (thanks to Andreas, who did a load of stuff and then moved on).

Richard's idea was make save-default-view mainstream now (covers new
tracks), then maybe later save the view state of each track to the
project file. Does that then give us the best of both worlds?


Thanks  

Gale

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[Martyn Shaw-2]

Doh, I'd forgotten that discussion!  I've turned it on for now, and
will wait the traditional week for problems before I make it mainstream.

Martyn

Gale Andrews wrote:

> | From Martyn Shaw <martynshaw99@...>
> | Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:53:37 +0100
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW
>> Why don't we turn on EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW?  Or even make it
>> mainstream?  It's a useful feature that allows user to select which
>> view they have when Audacity starts (Spectum, Waveform (dB) etc.).  It
>> does not appear to have any bugs in it.  (But yet another 'feature'
>> some would say, cluttering up the prefs, I'm sure.)
>
> I'm in favour of course, as per my recent suggestion that we could do
> either. Leland then said (23rd of last month) that he'd looked through
> the code and thought we could make it mainstream, so I don't know
> whether he's already close to doing this. And Richard said yes too.  
>
>
>> I've seen discussion here that the vertical viewing mode of tracks
>> should be preserved between sessions, and I've argued that it's a
>> per-track thing.  This is a halfway-house solution that's already in
>> the code (thanks to Andreas, who did a load of stuff and then moved on).
>
> Richard's idea was make save-default-view mainstream now (covers new
> tracks), then maybe later save the view state of each track to the
> project file. Does that then give us the best of both worlds?
>
>
> Thanks  
>
> Gale
>

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[Gale Andrews]

| From Roger Dannenberg <rbd@...>
| Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:12:47 -0400
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] EXPERIMENTAL_SAVE_DEFAULT_VIEW
> When I saw the subject line, I thought this might be about a different
> feature: It would be great if you could load up some files for viewing,
> change the underlying file with another program, and select "refresh" or
> "reload" to see the changed version. A more elaborate form of this is to
> allow a program to specify input files, a region of time, and track view
> parameters via some sort of descriptor file. For debugging audio
> software or browsing experimental data, it's really great to have a
> visual display, but setting up the view over and over  can be a pain.
> Does anything like this exist?

1) Would Mod_Script_Pipe help here?
2) Need to overcome operating system limitations on writing open
    files? I've never been able to edit a WAV file Audacity is reading
    directly (aliased) with other programs.


Gale

 

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