Re: [Audacity-devel] Reassigned spectrograms

[Paul L. <pau...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:37 PM, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:

> On 18/08/2015 18:50, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> > On 18 August 2015 at 16:50, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
> >> Steve, we currently have
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Waveform
> >> Spectrogram
> >> View Settings
> >> ----
> >>
> >> How about instead:
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Waveform
> >> Spectrogram
> >> ---
> >> Waveform Preferences
> >> Spectrogram Preferences
> >> ---
> > I think this hits on the main problem.
> > Are these globally acting preferences, or per-track options?
> They are currently per track.
> Unfortunately if they were changed to be just an alternative way to
> access the global Audacity preferences we would have a regression, as
> you could not have a Pitch and a Spectrogram view at the same time.
>
> I think the 'correct' interface would be more like styles in Word.
> So we could offer in the menu.
>
> ----
> 1: Waveform
> 2: Waveform (dB)
> 3: Spectrogram
> 4: Spectrogram (refined)   <-- I think this is better wording than the
> technically correct '(reassigned)'.
> 5: Pitch (EAC)
>

So for waveforms, the two scale types; for spectra, the three algorithms
instead of (as in the past) the scale types.  Scale types not specified
above.


> ----
>
>
> Which are 5 configured 'viewing styles'  We have also user defined
> styles 6, 7 and 8 which will only show if the user gives them a name.
>
> We can only configure these 8 Viewing Styles from the standard
> preferences dialog.  We can, for example, use a different window size on
> Pitch than on Spectrogram.  Paul's per track detailed configuration goes.
>
> In Preferences Dialog, Waveform and Spectrograms no longer appear under
> Tracks, instead they appear under a new entry "Viewing Styles".  This
> has all eight entries.  Each can be configured and the last three can be
> given names.  The predefined ones grey out some controls, such as the
> ability to change the name and the algorithm.  This means the predefined
> styles will continue to be where they should be and do what they say
> they do.
>
>
> I think this should give enough flexibility and be much better than what
> we currently have in audmain/master.  Implementing it introduces some
> schedule risk, so I want to check that there is (now) consensus that
> this is what we should do.
>
>
> --James.
>

These are strange ideas I don't fully understand and I fear it is rather
late to code this...

Waveforms and spectra are very different animals.  There would need to be
waveform styles, for saving combinations of one set of settings, and
spectogram styles for a different set of settings.  I don't see how you
would have one preference page with all eight settings.

PRL



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