Re: [Audacity-devel] Pinned Playback Context Menu

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Darrell Walisser <
dar...@gm...> wrote:

>
> I just gave RC a shot on Linux, compiled with only ./configure, no options
> needed.
>
> Small issue, I got confused trying to get "scroll while playing" aka
> pinned playback head to disable, the option in the horizontal ruler context
> menu doesn't seem to do anything besides toggle the menu text. I'm
> expecting it to also change the state of pinned playback and icon on the
> left side of the ruler.
>


The toggling between un-pinned (default) playback and pinnned-head playback
is controlled by clicking on the green icon at the left of the timeline.
This icon changes to show the type pf playback that is currently selected.

In the Timeline the right-click dropdown menu entry you talk about "*Do not
scroll while playing*" does something else - the Manual says:
>By default the waveform scrolls when playing. Enabling this option not to
scroll can be useful when using Quick-Play to adjust the start and end of
loops <http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_looping.html>.
>Not scrolling ensures that the edges of the looped selection do not move
if zooming in moves the playback point outside the visible area. The
alternative
>method of disabling scrolling is to use Tracks Preferences
<http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_preferences.html> and remove the
checkmark from *Update display when Recording/Playback head is unpinned*.

See this page in the Manual:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html#menu


Maybe we should consider adding a toggle for pinned/unpinned playback to
that dropdown menu
a) because some users obviously look there (Darrell, here, being a recent
example).
b) as it would help to avoid confusion about what "Do not scroll while
playing" actually does.

Peter.





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