Re: [Audacity-devel] Cursors, Toggles, Another etc...

[Vaughan J. <vjo...@co...>]

James Crook wrote:

>Fixed the Win2K cursor problem.
>
>Vaughan, Tony, in Win2K display properties settings your
>computers are using 16 bit color aren't they?  Try it with 32
>bit color, which is what I used.
>
>The mask color for the cursors was set as grey RGB:128,128,128.
>wxWindows apparently adjusts this to a color in the current
>color palette - and under Win2K it thinks 128,128,128 grey is not,
>with the result that when later trying to match the grey, there is no
>match so there is no mask.  The fix is to use RGB:255:0:0 which is
>fully saturated red, which IS is in the palette (even in 256 color
>mode.) and the custom cursors then work in 16 bit color mode.
>Phew!
>  
>

Thanks, James! That fixes it.

Actually, I have a dual-monitor setup, with a dual-head video card. When 
I first noticed the problem, one monitor was set to 32-bit and the other 
to 16-bit color, but the behavior was the same on both. After your 
message, I set both monitors to be 32-bit, and with fresh CVS, changed 
one of the masks back to RGB:128,128,128. Then, instead of the dual 
32-bit setting fixing the problem, it showed a black square (!) on 
either monitor. Weird, but using the red mask fixes it, so I'm happy.

"Phew!" is right. Thanks for your work on this.


>...
>-------
>Yes, Vaughan, I wanted to avoid 'repeat repeat', but actually it works
>fine the way Dominic has it and I see no need to change it to 'another'
>or 'apply again' [or 'one more time' or 'encore' :-)] or anything else..
>The availability of the Ctrl-R for Repeat last effect is also an argument
>for 'repeat'.
>

I couldn't think of a better alternative, either, for the "one more one 
more" (per Count Basie) command, or the Repeat effect. ("Recur?!") I'm 
happy to let it stand, and we'll see if newbies get confused.

-Vaughan