Re: [Audacity-devel] changing track colors

[Etienne T. <e....@gm...>]

You are right  Vaughan, it is all part of the adventure . Should have
realized that asking for direction is the worst request you can make in the
software world or to a software developer .

Sorry to have asked
-Etienne

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Vaughan Johnson
<va...@au...>wrote:

> Wish I'd seen this sooner. Asking for help from people more
> knowledgeable is certainly part of software engineering, but if I were
> your instructor, Etienne, I would say that finding the relevant code is
> a big part of the assignment. You do not learn to search the structure
> of the code on your own by getting the answers handed to you.
>
> So I'm not inclined to give you the further hint of where code to do
> this (different colors for each track's waveform display) already
> exists. But I'll play "20 questions" about it.
>
> :-)
>
> - Vaughan
>
>
> On 5/17/2010 5:16 PM, Al Dimond wrote:
> > On Monday, May 17, 2010 17:50:44 Etienne Theoret wrote:
> >> I just downloaded the source code today and having problems on
> >> finding what I need.
> >>
> >> I have along with a team to modify the play so that every track has
> >> the waveline of different color.
> >> This a slight modification that need to be done  a software
> >> engineering course.
> >>
> >> I am not asking on how to do it but which file may be of importance
> >> in accomplishing the task.
> >>
> >
> > I assume you're working with SVN HEAD or a recent source release from
> > the 1.3 branch. There might be differences in older code that I don't
> > know about.
> >
> > Waveform drawing takes place in TrackArtist::DrawClipWaveform(), in
> > src/TrackArtist.cpp. You should be able to find brush declarations and
> > initializations from there. Currently color declarations look pretty
> > complicated because many of them use our half-completed support for
> > theming and theme preferences. See the following wiki page for (a
> > little) more info:
> >
> > http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Theming_HowTo
> >
> > You may, as the wiki suggests, find it better to ignore the theming
> > stuff. If you want to use it you'll need to uncomment the definition of
> > EXPERIMENTAL_THEME_PREFS in src/Experimental.h
> >
> >   - Al
> >
> >> Thanks , any help is greatly appreciated
> >
>
>
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