From: John C. <ci...@pu...> - 2005-10-09 05:49:17
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Jeff, After considerable study of this problem of GWC only processing one channel, I've come to the conclusion that it's a matter of the focus. I had always assumed that the action would take place on the "current view" as that's how the buttons describe it, IE "Amplifies the current view or selection." But in my case, the program doesn't process both channels in the current view at times. The test I've found is to click on the button to "select current view". When I do that, maybe one channel highlights, or maybe both channels highlight. This condition can be forced by clicking the mouse deliberately somewhere in the left channel window (or the right channel) and clicking "select current view." Then it can be seen that only one channel gets highlighted. I don't think that I had intentionally clicked in a particular channel's window prior to doing a function, but in any case the cure is to click somewhere in the black bar separating the channels prior to selecting a function. Then it always does both channels. I honestly do not remember this being a problem last year when I was still using my Red Hat 7.3 system. The problem seems to have coincided with installing Debian (sarge). It's still a 2.4 kernel so that's not the reason. Perhaps some change in KDE or something? I have done test installs of every version I have, back to 0.19.5 and they all have the same behavior on Sarge, yet I am fairly certain that 0.19.7 didn't do this on RH7.3 (I used 0.19.7 for a LONG time on that system). Anyway, now that I know how to check and correct this, it's not a problem unless I forget. I know that if I use the "select current view" button, I can always know if it will grab both channels. I don't necessarily want to have to do that, so I've been cheating by clicking the black separator bar. The conclusion is, I don't think it's a bug in GWC, just an unexpected behavior. It's too bad that the focus can't be known just by looking (or can it?) John Jeff Welty wrote: > Hi John, > > What you've described sounds like a bug in GWC. You obviously > know the amplification would only be applied to the selected channel, > > I'll look into this, but it will take a week or so. In the meantime, if > you have time, try to see if you can determine a sequence of actions > that will alway cause it to fail to work properly. > > Thanks for the bug report! > jw > > John Cirillo wrote: > >> I frequently need to use the Amplify function to bring up >> the level of one or both channels. >> Some of the time, only one channel will amplify (usually the >> left channel) even though I specified both. >> Or even if I specified only right channel amplification, it >> goes through the motions, says it's done, yet no >> amplification was performed. >> I thought at first maybe I was trying to specify an >> out-of-bounds amount, but that's not it. >> It could say that the max available is 2.8, and I want to go >> from 1.0 to 1.2 or something like that. >> Either one or both channels fail to amplify. Yet, if I try >> to perform the operation 2 or 3 times, it finally amplifies. >> If I deliberately highlight the entire right channel >> waveform and specify amplification on that channel, the odds >> are better but still not always. >> I can't remember when I first started noticing this or >> whether it was always there to some degree. >> At this moment I have GWC 0.19-7 and 0.20-07 both installed. >> I like the features of 0.20 but sometimes use 0.19-7 if >> 0.20 seems squirrely. Both of them have this erratic >> amplification behavior. >> I did have the newer 0.20-10 but it was a little too >> unstable on this system. I currently am running Debian >> Sarge, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 with an AMD Duron if that helps. >> KDE 3.3 environment. >> Is this a GWC issue, or could it be something wrong >> elsewhere? It's starting to drive me batty as I'm using GWC >> more and more. >> >> Any suggestions appreciated. >> >> John Cirillo >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO >> September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle >> Practices >> Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing >> & QA >> Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf >> _______________________________________________ >> Gwc-general mailing list >> Gwc...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwc-general >> >> >> >> !DSPAM:42f93f1f86851085383841! > > > > |