Re: [Audacity-devel] Independent meters
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From: Gale <ga...@au...> - 2014-12-28 06:10:52
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Leland (Audacity Team) wrote > The attached should address the issues you mention below. You may notice > there are two patches. The "independent_withmenu.patch" is the same as > the > previous one, but with the corrections. The > "independent_withoutmenu.patch" > is an experiment that combines the meter icon and menu button into one and > it provides more "room" for the meter with less wasted space. > > See the "experimeter.png" for an example. (and your icon doesn't > disappear > for verticals ;-)) Thanks, Leland. I tried the patch "without menu". The refresh and reset after undock issues seem to be fixed. Given the independent preferences don't affect Mixer Board, I'd still like to see the meter prefs dialogue say which meter I'm changing prefs for. Now I can see the meter icon when docked vertical, does the icon need to be on the right instead of the left? It does look odd when one docked meter is horizontal and one vertical, and I strongly dislike the solution in HEAD where the dropdown is on the right (it's just too far away). I do understand that undocked vertical scale is on the right because the scale is next to the R channel. If I click close to the bottom of the "dropdown" glyph on the combined menu/icon, I can accidentally change monitoring state without opening the menu. Also it does not seem clear that I don't have to aim for the little dropdown glyph to open the menu, but can click on the playback or record icon to do that. So, should the dropdown glyph be the same as that in e.g. Device Toolbar (larger, without the line on top), and behave like a button (so that visually it would have a vertical separator line to right of it and clicking anywhere inside the resulting square opened the menu)? And should hovering over the menu/icon area say "Recording Level menu" and "Playback Level menu" respectively? Gale > -----Original Message----- > From: Gale [mailto:gale@] > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 6:12 PM > To: audacity-devel@.sourceforge > Subject: Re: [Audacity-devel] Independent meters > > Leland (Audacity Team) wrote > > In a comment to r13782, Gale suggested that the meters should be > > completely > > independent of each other...one should be allowed to be vertical while the > > other is horizontal. And it should be persistent...it should not be > > overridden by our automatic meter layout. > > > > We'd discussed this briefly back in July here: > > > > <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Switching-between-vertical-horizontal- m> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Switching-between-vertical- <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Switching-between-vertical-horizontal- m> > horizontal-m > > eters-tt7562319.html > > > > And it was supposed to be readdressed post 2.0.6. Well, I completely > > forgot > > about it until Gale brought it up again. > > > > Anyway, attached is a patch if people want to play with it. > > > > It gives all 3 meter types (input, output, mixerboard) their own > > preferences, so style, type, orientation, and rate can be set for each > > without affecting the others. > > > > It retains the automatic layout by adding an "Automatic" orientation > > option. > > If set to Horizontal or Vertical, that will be used regardless of whether > > of > > "other" meter is set to automatic or not. > > > > You can get some interesting arrangements... > > > > Leland > > Thanks, I like the patch. Now I can rule the meters instead of the other way > round! > > There seems to be a couple of problems in the patch. Entering refresh rates > is > ignored - the value is always shown as (and looks like) 30. This works > properly in HEAD where you can have separate refresh rates for each > meter. > > Also I like that View > Reset > Toolbars retains each meter's prefs, > but if I undock the meters, set Recording to horizontal and Playback to > vertical, reset docks both meters vertical. If I undock the meters, > set Recording to vertical and Playback to horizontal, reset docks both > meters horizontal. > > I was about to suggest that now the meters are truly independent, could > the window title say which meter we're adjusting preferences for? This is > particularly pertinent since the docked vertical meters in HEAD don't show > the icon for the meter they are. Can't we use some of their horizontal space > to always show the icon? > > The problem with the window title suggestion is that I can't figure where > the Mixer Board Meter Preferences are. I thought perhaps they obeyed > the Playback Meter Preferences, but they don't. > > > Gale > > > > -- > View this message in context: > <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Independent-meters-tp7566296p7566376.h tml> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Independent-meters- <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Independent-meters-tp7566296p7566376.h tml> > tp7566296p7566376.html > Sent from the audacity-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. independent_meters_withmenu.patch (15K) <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/attachment/7566379/0/independent_meters_withmenu.patch> experimeter.png (192K) <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/attachment/7566379/1/experimeter.png> independent_meters_withoutmenu.patch (26K) <http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/attachment/7566379/2/independent_meters_withoutmenu.patch> -- View this message in context: http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Independent-meters-tp7566296p7566417.html Sent from the audacity-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |