Re: [Audacity-devel] possible bug in version 1.3.7

[Gale (A. Team) <ga...@au...>]

Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, February 5, 2009 2:49 pm, John Meagher wrote:
>> I use Audacity to record and edit files for my weekly podcast, and I just
>> updated to version 1.3.7. I've noticed an odd change between versions
>> that
>> I can't figure out how to fix or turn off.
>>
>> When I use the Generate Silence feature to add a little extra space
>> between some of my spoken sentences, suddenly the display shifts from
>> Normal to Fit in Window. This makes me lose my place and I have to get
>> back to Normal sized view and find where the cursor is again, wasting a
>> lot of time. In the previous version, when I Generated Silence, the
>> display didn't change at all. Is there something I can select to turn
>> this
>> off? I can't seem to find anything in Preferences or the Help file that
>> addresses this.
> 
> Thanks for the report. I suspect the reason this has happened is that in
> 1.3.7, we fixed a bug where generating in a new track did not fit in the
> window (this would obviously be the most desirable behaviour in that case,
> especially with short tones). If what you are seeing is a side effect of
> this change, it's equally obviously undesirable. So if possible we
> probably want to code it so that generated lengths only fit where they are
> a new track.
> 
> I've Cc'd this to our developers' mailing list for comments...
> 

We're obviously getting complaints about this, so any ideas what we should 
do? Is it fixable while still having a newly generated track fit in the
window,
or is this loss of zoom level more irritating than what we fixed? 


Gale 
    

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