[Audacity-devel] string too long in french version

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

Gale sent me this and I replied off-list but now realize that I cannot put
it on the patch tracker without posting it to this list (it has no bug on
Bugzilla). I removed the two attachments which were not patches (the image
and the actual source).

--Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Musgrove [mailto:edg...@wa...] 
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:42 AM
To: 'Gale Andrews'
Subject: string too long in french version - French answer

Hi Gale!

While I do not think it is possible to have a multi-line RadioButton in a
RadioBox I have asked this question on the wxWidgets developer list(1).

This is really just a symptom of a more overall problem. If we were to make
the Preferences dialog completely* resizable (very trivial and easy) it
would help not only here but on other panels as well. What would make it
even better would be to make the Preferences dialog both resizable and
scrollable-- something along the lines of what I was trying to accomplish
with the ExportMultiple success dialog. This is the very first change I made
back in August to my personal working copy of Audacity.

* It is currently resizable but the maximum size is very restricted -- only
about one half of my screen's width and height.

This is a usability issue and requires changes to the GUI. As such I think
it should become a Bug and I think that some discussion should take place
about the design criteria for this sort of thing in general. I personally
believe that every window should be resizable and scrollable -- this would
be necessary if we ever allowed the user to change the font. 

--Ed

(1) A temporary fix is attached. I have attached a patch file and the actual
source file since my patches have been so problematical lately. I've also
attached a picture so you can see the new visual look. I have no way to test
this on Mac and this patch changes Mac specific code -- do not commit this
patch without having a Mac beta tester verify that it works properly
(visually and in relation to saving the user's preferences).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gale Andrews [mailto:ga...@au...]
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:02 PM
> To: edg...@wa...
> Cc: chr...@ac...
> Subject: Re: [?? Probable Spam] string too long in french version - 
> French answer
> 
> 
> Ed, I wondered if you wanted to have a go at this? I can confirm I get 
> the same problem in HEAD on Ubuntu 9.10. I guess we want to add a wrap 
> in RecordingPrefs.cpp here because this may need a fairly long 
> explanation in some languages. There is an example of a wrap in 
> DirectoriesPrefs.cpp ("If the available system
> memory...") but that's a free text string and this is checkbox text.
> 
> Christian, if I can ask, I notice you have "Software Playthrough"
> and "Hardware Playthrough" both translated as "Passage audio 
> lo&giciel". But this can't make sense, because on a Mac both these 
> items appear underneath each other in the Recording Preferences.
> "Hardware Playthrough" is often called "Hardware Monitoring".
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Gale
> 
> 
> 
> 
> | From Christian Brochec
> | Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:08:10 +0100
> | Subject: [?? Probable Spam]  string too long in french version - 
> | French answer
> > Comme vous pouvez le voir, sous Windows il n'y a pas de problème et 
> > je n'ai pour le moment pas eu d'autre retour sur ce problème.
> > S'agit-il, de l'installation ubuntu classique ou d'une compilation 
> > personnelle ?
> >
> > Cordialement
> >
> >
> > Christian Brochec
> > Traducteur d'Audacity,
> > Assistance francophone
> >
> > (vous êtes de l'ENSSAT de Lannion ?)
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 11/02/2010 19:48, Benjamin Thou a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've seen a little mistake in the French tranlate of Audacity.
> > > If you go to "Edition > Preferences" and "Enregistrement" 
> > > category, the description of the second option is too long to be 
> > > print on the window (as you can see on the joined screenshot). And 
> > > it's impossible to resize this window.
> > >
> > > My version of audacity is 1.3.9 and I running it on Ubuntu 9.10
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you guy for this awesome software :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benjamin Thou - ENSSAT Graduate engineering school - 
> > > bt...@en... <mailto:bt...@en...>
> >