Re: [Audacity-quality] Widen Meter Toolbar and Device Toolbar?

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

On 8/9/2012 5:33 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
> 
> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
> | Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:41:41 -0700
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Widen Meter Toolbar and Device Toolbar?
>> On 8/9/2012 11:44 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>>>
>>> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
>>> | Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:45:11 -0700
>>> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Widen Meter Toolbar and Device Toolbar?
>>>> On 8/7/2012 1:14 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>>>>> [...] 
>>>>> Ed sent me a patch off list using "magic stretch numbers" to stretch
>>>>> Device and Meter Toolbar to the initialised 780 px width (also Mixer
>>>>> Toolbar, but I don't see the point in that).  I have not tried it, but it is
>>>>> inline at the bottom of this post.   
>>> [...]
>>> Not to my knowledge, but I think his point may be that making them 
>>> a pixel or two less wide than possible makes them easier to grab 
>>> within the initialised window (in case someone actually wants to make 
>>> them smaller). 
>>
>> Are you saying I should remove that extra one pixel I added beyond his
>> numbers?
> 
> Testing now, it is very easy from the starting point of an 
> initialised window to make the project window narrower
> when you are trying to make Device Toolbar smaller. 

Good. Which platforms did you try? I'm most concerned my extra pixel
will be a problem on Mac.


> 
> But it seems we only allow roughly the width of the 
> Device/Meter toolbar "drag handle" (at the right) as extra
> space between the toolbar and the right edge of the project 
> window. 

Yes. But I determined the numbers I used by increasing by 5, then
successively decreasing them until they fit (i.e., without being forced
to a new row). And only one pixel bigger than Ed's numbers fit, for both
toolbars.


> 
> So even if you reduced those toolbar's widths by one or two px,
> it doesn't remove the general "problem" of being able to park
> those two toolbars "too close" to the right-hand edge of the 
> window. Expanding the allowed space to right of those toolbars
> a few pixels would seem better, if that can be done, 

Cannot, without invoking rearrangement. Note that you cannot drag it
wider without widening the project window.


>but I don't 
> think this really matters for 2.0.2rc1? 

It does if it doesn't work right on other platforms. But we can just
test it with rc1.


> 
> Note that widening Meter Toolbar means that width is also now
> its minimum, so we going to have to allow resizing smaller, I feel.

True. There was never a minimum set for it, which meant its minimum was
effectively its original size.


> Even the old width was too wide for vertical layout. The case for
> greater width is for horizontal layout. 

You didn't suggest a number, so I've changed it to use the previous
initial width as the minimum, r11913.

- V