Re: [Audacity-devel] Cancelling Timer Record recording

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

Removing the cancel button would not be too bad imo.
It would certainly be "safer" for naive users and of little
inconvenience for others (if a user really does want to "cancel" they
can "stop => Ctrl+Z"

Steve

On 25 May 2012 05:54, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
>
> Because we treat cancelling an in-progress Timer Record as an
> "Undo Record" (not unreasonable on the face of it), this then
> means that if you:
>
> 1 Start a Timer Record
> 2 Cancel the Timer Record while recording
> 3 Start a new recording (or do anything else)
>
> then the original recording is lost.
>
> This arises from a recent Forum post where someone started Timer
> Record, wanted to extend the timer to record for longer (can't be
> done), panicked, cancelled Timer Record, then started a new
> recording.
>
> I've previously wondered if cancelling Timer Record should leave
> an Undo History item. This is a good reason why it should, but it
> doesn't help a user who cancels then re-records, or knows they
> want the "Stop" button but hits the wrong one. They are then
> sunk unless they use Edit > Undo before anything else.
>
> Can we do anything here in recognition that recordings can be
> irreplaceable? Possibilities:
>
> * Remove the "Cancel" button from "Audacity Timer Record
>   Progress" - they have to remove the track if they don't
>   want it.
> * Treat cancelling Timer Record as separate "Record" and
>   "Remove Track" actions -  then (I think) user is safe as
>   long as they don't undo back to the start then record.
>   Potentially messy for the code?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
> Gale
>
>
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