Re: [Audacity-devel] Meter Range

[Martyn S. <mar...@go...>]

Gale Andrews wrote:
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> I agree about the meter range, having played around a bit more. And 
> even for playback, a long fade-out that's still audible doesn't register
> on the meter at -36db minimum. No doubt "someone" out there will 
> want to combine the old defaults (-36 dB waveform view and -60 dB
> meters) but linking the two values is more logical. 

At some point we could have separate prefs, but let's leave it as is 
for now.

> I understand that where the ticks/values on the meter and waveform
> vertical scale appear is a matter of judgement, but I still can't help
> feeling there aren't enough on either meter or waveform at -60dB
> without dragging.

I have made a slight improvement to the ruler, and I think that the 
minimum distance allowed between minor ruler ticks could usefully  be 
made smaller.  What do you think?  Try changing the '16' on line 379 
of Ruler.cpp to '10' say, and recompile - at many sizes of the ruler 
you will get closer spaced ticks.

The vertical ruler on the 'Waveform (dB)' is a different type, it uses 
  RealFormat rather than LinearDBFormat (line 355 of TrackArtist.cpp). 
  Try changing it and see what you think - I am inclined to think it 
should be LinearDBFormat and I don't know why RealFormat was chosen 
back in 2003.  Shall we change it?

  Does the default meter size leave more space
> than necessary to right of it? For example at 1024 x 768 I can
> move the Edit Toolbar to right of it and still have space to expand 
> the meter enough to show a very useful tick at -10dB. At 800 x 600 
> the meter has more space to right of it than is needed for the only 
> item (transcription toolbar) that could fit alongside. 

The meter displays at it's minimum size by default.  We could make 
that bigger, but that may upset some users I guess.  I don't know how 
to make it display bigger by default but resizeable downwards.  Sorry.

TTFN
Martyn

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