Re: [Audacity-devel] Beta_Feedback (bug)

[Ed M. <edg...@wa...>]

I think I might know what is going on. It is not really a bug. What is
happening is that when the user tabs into the section of the dialog which
contains files and folders Windows is automatically filtering based on "Save
as type:". Since in the case Tobias provided there are no previously saved
Audacity projects everything is filtered out because they do not because
they do not have the .AUP extension. Try this:
* Open the folder "modules" (or "Modules" on Tobias's machine) in the folder
in which Audacity resides
-- on my machine it is here:  audacity\win\Unicode Debug
-- on Tobias's machine here:  Audacity 1.3 Bata (Unicode)
* Create a new folder

Now follow the steps to re-create (see bottom of this document) and you will
see that when all the files disappear the folder does not. Now create a real
project in this folder then follow the steps to re-create and you will see
that all files disappear but the folder and the audacity project files
(including the data folder) remain visible.

Thank you Tobias for creating a very detailed and specific bug report which
enabled me to understand the situation very clearly and determine (I think)
exactly what was going on.

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The following discussion is probably no longer pertinent...

A picture is worth 1000 words! I could not understand the German text but by
following the pictures I was able to re-create this problem 100% of the
time.

The first thought I have is that the File Save panel is using an obsolete
Window's control. I think that wxWidgets 2.9 is now using the most current
control -- I do not know if this will resolve the issue if/when Audacity
starts compiling/shipping with a more current wxWidgets library. I do not
have any other programs running on my machine based on wxWidgets so I cannot
be sure that this is a wxWidgets not Audacity problem. I do know that other
fairly current applications which are still using the obsolete panel do not
exhibit this problem.

In testing further, I can expose other bugs with this panel. I know that
there has been discussion on this list which leads me to believe that the
File Save/Open dialogs are going to get modernized post-2.0. My personal
belief is that we should rate this as a P3, discuss it in the Release Notes
then postpone anything more than a cursory examination until the file
dialogs are modernized.

Steps (in English) to reproduce:
* Compile Unicode CVS HEAD 7 December 2009
* Launch Audacity (it does not matter if the configuration file is
initialized or not)
* Choose "Save Project As..." (aside -- why can I save an empty project? )
* Click OK on Warning dialog
* The "Save Project As..." dialog opens in the launch directory's "modules"
folder with focus on the empty "File name:" text entry field
* Press the TAB key 7 times

--Ed


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Fuchs [mailto:tob...@go...]
> >
> > If I click on the Desktop button of the file browser appearing as you
> > click on "Save Project as." and then click an Arrow-Key to select
> > another item in the File-Browser or click on another Item, you will
> > see that the files (not the folders) are just disappearing. This is
> > happening in any Folder and it is some kind of disturbing. It also
> > accurse if you want to include the lame plug in, but not if you just
open
> any file.