[Audacity-devel] HelpText.cpp - erratum

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

[Sorry I meant "new "exporting" text, not "editing" text. Corrected 
here. - Gale ]
 


Here is my attempt at the attached. It includes Vaughan's new version 
string.  

Have tried to slot text into the same format already used (this is causing 
translation headaches?), except for the (file format) help. This is still
#ifdeffed, though I have rewritten it to allow for FLAC and AAC (on Macs)
being supported, and shortened it compared to the FAQ. My vote is 
that it should be part of the inbuilt help rather than going to the FAQ,
unless the viewer can't cope with another page. 

The recording page is the longest, but it isn't all that much longer than 
before even with monitoring added. I have limited platform differences to
the minimum (I think) we can get away with. If we feel it's still too long,
we'd have to prune it and rely more on / target towards the relevant Wiki
pages. In view of its length, I added an additional Welcome link at the top. 

The new exporting page is probably going to scroll as well, but I tried to 
cover all main user confusions with saving and exporting I could think of.
Should the editing page be called "Editing and Greyed out Menus" instead 
of "Greyed Out Items"?

Three other points:

1  Do I presume you cannot backspace to go back with this HTML viewer?

2 Can the Welcome Message be changed so that it is a normal separate
window (like Undo History) that can be task-switched between while using 
the rest of the program? Its usefulness will be compromised if not, in my 
view, as users will want to refer to it while working.   

3 The Preference "Show Splash Screen at program start up" should I think
be changed to "Show Welcome Message at program start up" because 
it's not referred to as "Splash Screen" anywhere else AFIK. Sorry i have only 
seen this after Vaughan did some Preferences changes, but I think I should 
add it to the wording Wiki. 



Gale