Re: [Audacity-devel] Solo and Mute not working on stereo track at top of window
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From: Gale A. <ga...@au...> - 2009-08-01 00:56:24
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| From Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:36:14 +0100 | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Solo and Mute not working on stereo track at top of window > | From Al Dimond <bus...@gm...> > | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:31:04 -0600 > | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Solo and Mute not working on stereo track at top of window > > On Friday 31 July 2009 11:06:23 David Bailes wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Steve<ste...@gm...> wrote: > > > > This is rather difficult to describe without illustrations so I have > > > > posted a description here: > > > > http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11905 > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > confirmed here on Vista. > > > The problem can be reproduced using a slightly simpler procedure: > > > 1. open a stero track. > > > 2. Adjust the height of the Audacity window so that only the top > > > channel of the track is visible. > > > 3. scroll down to see the bottom channel. > > > 4. The reappearing mute and solo controls don't work properly, as > > > described by Steve. > > > > > > David. > > > > The mute and solo handlers were using GetLinked() to check if the tracks were > > linked, which works only for the first (left) of the linked tracks. Here's a > > patch that fixes it for me. > > In fact this was already on the Checklist in this form: > > P3 (reported on Windows) At 120 DPI, importing a second stereo track > causes the pre-existing stereo track above to split. > * GA: See after importing second track: > http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/dp12.png > If you mute the upper track, that only mutes the right-hand > channel so you still hear the unwanted left-channel. To make the > pre-existing track stereo again you have to up-arrow. In fact, this unasked-for splitting occurs for me on Windows XP even at normal 96 DPI in that scenario of importing one stereo track then another. It doesn't occur if I import a track and duplicate it at normal DPI. Do we agree to promote this to P2 and fix it, or does anyone regard this splitting as a "feature" if we patch the mute/solo buttons to work? My view is: if the user has not split their stereo track, they do not get to see it split, irrespective of DPI and screen size. Otherwise, we're just breaking basic rules and making the user think they have split their track when they haven't. Gale > I can't seem to reproduce David's issue on XP, unless I am > misunderstanding the steps. > > IMO the real bug is that the track is being split in the first place, > which is very confusing. 1.2 does not do this so it looks like a > regression to me, so probably might even have been a P2 instead > of a P3. |