Re: [Audacity-devel] Reassigned spectrograms

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

On 18/08/2015 22:54, Paul Licameli wrote:
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>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:37 PM, James Crook <cr...@in... 
> <mailto:cr...@in...>> wrote:
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>     On 18/08/2015 18:50, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>     > On 18 August 2015 at 16:50, James Crook <cr...@in...
>     <mailto:cr...@in...>> wrote:
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>     ----
>     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.
AND 3 user defined viewing styles.

Scale types not specified above, and so can be changed by user for that 
style, as can window size etc.

I might decide that my 6 is:

6: Short-Range Spectrum

And use a small window for it.

>     ----
>
>     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...
It IS late to code it.

> Waveforms and spectra are very different animals.
Yes.  And perhaps in time Pitch, reassigned spectrogram and ordinary 
spectrogram will diverge further too.

> 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.
You'd have one preference page for each style 1..8, making 8 pages, in 
the tree for them,
and one page listing the names of the 8 styles and the algorithm (which 
would now also include the option of 'Waveform' as an algorithm).  The 
algorithm then determines what page/fields show when you click on that 
style in preferences tree.

Clearer?