Re: [Audacity-devel] Improve resample dialoge

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

| From James Crook <cr...@in...> 
| Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:04:31 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] Improve resample dialoge
> Martyn Shaw wrote:
> > Philipp Weissenbacher wrote:
> >> How about improving the resample dialog (located under
> >> Tracks->Resample...) in the following ways:
> >> First, giving a hint which unit to enter e.g. "Enter new sample rate (Hz):".
> >> (BTW: note the spelling error).
> 
> > A sensible suggestion, and an easy change to wording, should I commit 
> > it, given the 'we need agreement on this list' thing?
> No.  In my opinion units should come after the entry box like so:
> 
> New sample rate: [Data Entry Box] (Hz)

I presume you mean (Hz) is to right of the data box, but with the box
underneath "New sample rate"? That looks very strange to me with that
length of box, though. 

Losing "Enter" is fine with me as the cursor is in the text box.  

We are inconsistent about this in Preferences (see Audio I/O where text
is after the box, Quality where it's in the text in the box, and
Spectrograms where it's before the box). 

We also have a consistency problem that the style in type 3 Nyquist 
plug-ins has moved the value [in square brackets !] to left of the 
entry box. Again I think the length of the box and/or control is the 
issue - to put the unit after a box and a slider really does not look 
good to me. But if units is after a small box as per Audio I/O
preferences it possibly looks better than if units is before the box. 

I see a general tendency to dialogues being too wide and buttons 
too large (another kind of verbosity). 


Gale