[Audacity-nyquist] Nyquist plug-in layout suggestions

[David R. S. <sk...@wa...>]

A few suggestions for improving layout of Nyquist plug-ins:

1. If the ;info line is word wrapped because of a long line, the
plug-in doesn't work.

Suggestion: have the ;info line start at the opening double quote
" and finish at the second double quote " . so the info line could
be several lines without worry of word wrapping. so it wouldn't
matter if the plug-in was put in text for digest recipients. Steven
Jones often has very long info lines for instructions to the user.

2. When there is more than one space  between   the   numbers   on 
;control lines, those edit fields are not displayed corectly.

;control f "frequency" real "hz" 20   20   20000

will produce an error,

;control f "frequency" real "hz" 20 20 20000

does work.

Suggestion: make it necessary that there is _at least_ one space
between those numbers, and irrelevant if there is more than one
space.

3. For multiple selections (such as choose between
sine/tri/square/saw waves), currently you need

;control wave "waveform" int "0=sine 1=tri 2=sq 3=saw" 0 0 3

which creates two fields on the screen: an edit field and a track
bar. Can you simplify it to option buttons (just like in the built-
in tone generator)? Checkboxes.

Thanks

David

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