Re: [Audacity-devel] P3 Timer Record cannot maintain scheduled duration if system clock changes

[Ed M. <edg...@wa...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vaughan Johnson [mailto:va...@au...]
> Ed Musgrove wrote:
> > Speaking professionally, a recording granularity of one half of one
> > second is not acceptable.
> As I mentioned, at the time, some machines had trouble recording with a
> smaller timer interval. Certainly having a half second extra recorded on a
half
> hour or hour (the span I typically use, and would guess most people do) is
a
> small problem compared to gaps in the recording.

[Ed:] 
The real problem is the granularity is plus or minus -- you can get a half
second less recorded as well as more recorded.

> > Just for kicks...
> 
> That's a reasonable idea at first glance, but as Gale explained, it makes
for a
> *lot* of other problems...KISS
> 
> If one wants to do a bunch of editing, then do that, and don't set Timer
> Record until finished editing and ready to go away. I made it modal by
design,
> and overall, I don't think it's a good idea to make it modeless.

After all this, I think I'm close to agreeing with you. The only major
problem is that the parent window can't be moved so it's stuck there
covering the center of your screen interfering with other work. Another
possible solution would be to move it off to never never land (-32,000,
-32,000) <grin>!

--Ed