Re: [Audacity-devel] C++ dev looking to help out

[Andrew R. <dea...@gm...>]

On 20 March 2012 07:37, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Welcome.
>
> > Any thoughts or recommendations about resizing the TrackInfo?
> For the time being don't!  If you're addressing bug 201, just fix the
> issue it is about and then we can close it.  We'll see the full string
> when we select 'name' from the menu.
>
> > Should I just modify the current TrackInfo?
> No.  When you have 201 fixed, then we can talk about how to display long
> names.  Making TrackInfo wider is not one of the solutions we want, at
> least not at this stage.  I'd want to auto re-layout the TrackInfo if we
> make it resizable, and that's too big a change at this stage.  We do not
> want to make it wider by default.
>
> Possibilities might include using space in the wavetrack and using
> tooltips.  We can talk about that later.  It's a separate issue.
>
>  Alright, makes sense.


>
> I want to check, are you aware of http://code.google.com/soc/ (Google
> summer of code)?  We are not participating this year, but there are
> excellent open source organisations which are.  Blender, GStreamer,
> Libav and Mixxx all have audio projects.
>
> Yes, I am aware of it.  However, UWaterloo Engineering programs run year
round, so every summer I will either be on a internship (which I need five
of to graduate) or in school full time.  I wouldn't want to commit to a
project just to not have the time to work on it.



--Andrew


>
> On 20/03/2012 02:10, Andrew Russell wrote:
> > Hey Auacity team!
> >
> > I'm a Software Engineering student currently in my senior year at the
> > University of Waterloo.  I recently decided I'd like to start helping
> > out with Audacity, seeing as I use it on a regular basis.  I've used
> > C++ for around 7-8 years now for a number of purposes, ranging from
> > driver work on multiple platforms to various sized applications and
> > games, both for internships and personal projects.  I also have an
> > interest in digital signal processing.  I've taken a couple courses on
> > the topic and will take more in the coming term, and also am working
> > on some audio processing algorithms during my current internship.
> >
> > I've started working on Bug 201
> > (http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201) since it is
> > fairly simple to implement while getting used to the code.  One thing
> > I've noticed for the WavTrack is that the track title name becomes too
> > long to show at once, and it is just displayed as "Audio Track" in the
> > TrackInfo.  I was thinking of resizing the TrackInfo so that the
> > numbers are displayed, but there are comments all over that file about
> > planned changes.  Any thoughts or recommendations about resizing the
> > TrackInfo?  Should I just modify the current TrackInfo?
> >
> > Anyways, I look forward to working on Audacity!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew Russell
> >
>
>
>
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