Re: [Audacity-devel] non-ascii labels

[Leland <aud...@ho...>]

On 9/26/06 6:48 PM, "Stuart" <smc...@fr...> wrote:

> 
> Saving and restoring worked perfectly for me.  Label files
> and .aup project are utf-8 and japanese labels are saved
> and restored fine.  I can look at the .aup and label files
> with a utf-8 editor and they display fine.
> 
Excellent.  That means my brain was working right for a change.  :-)

> There still seems to be a problem editing label text when
> it contains Japanese.  Backspace deletes only "half" a
> character (ie one byte, changing the character into something
> else), the right/left arrow keys cause the text cursor to
> move strangely in the label box (full char forward, half
> char back, etc)  (I thought on Sunday, when I first tried
> this, it was working perfectly, but today its behavior is
> consistently broken... maybe I am misremembering sunday.)
> 
Hey, I wonder if this has to do with a problem recently reported by Bo
Berglund.  I am still unable to recreate his issue, but your problem may
point me at the right spot for both of ya.

> But it sure is nice to be able to annotate a whole file
> without having to save after every two three labels in
> case Audacity crashes!!  No crashes.
> 
Well, that's an unplanned feature...I'll see what I can do.  :-)

> Only thing I notice, and I not sure its a bug or a feature,
> but if ones selects a section of audio, listens to it, then
> types ctl-B to annotate it, the label text window does not
> have focus, and anything typed is lost.  If you are typing
> ascii you immediately notice nothing is going into the label
> box.  But if you are using an IME, you type into the IME
> window, and only after typing everything and enter a <return>
> do you discover that nothing goes into the label text and
> you have to retype the whole thing.  One needs to click in
> label box before one can type.  This may not sound very onerous
> but the need to navaigate the mouse to relatively small spot
> on the screen really slows down the annotation process (by
> as much as 20-30% perhaps, for me, when I am really humming
> along.) 
> 
> Another minor related nit.  Select some audio, type ctl-B,
> click in the label box to edit.  Now play the selection.
> Nothing on the screen changes, the label track still has
> the green line around it, it looks like it has focus, but
> it doesn't.
> 
Glad you mentioned these.  Focus and the like is my next task.

Thanks,

Leland