Nyquist Wish List

[steve]

Links to topics requesting new features or other enhancements to Audacity-Nyquist.

HTML links
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=36639

Preview button for 'process' plug-ins
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=36641

Pass Peak level to Nyquist
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=36628

Pass other track data
viewtopic.php?p=127069#p127069
(and viewtopic.php?p=191199#p191199)
* Track name
* Track time
* Channel allocation (for mono tracks)
* RMS
* Start time
* Envelope Points
* Bit depth

GUI designer module
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=36640

Text between controls for plug-in GUI
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=38267

[steve]

Scroll bars on Nyquist text output window
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=38754

[steve]

Access to Nyquist Prompt without generating a track first.

[Gale Andrews]

Selection choice boxes should expand from default size when they contain longer text.

[steve]

Proposal that "Generate" type plug-ins can produce stereo, mono or no audio track.
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=47111

[steve]

Support for "Preset menu".

(from this post viewtopic.php?f=42&t=33563#p132370 )

A preset menu can currently be implemented using the "Choice" widget, but the chosen preset values are not shown in the interface.
This proposal is for the sliders and other widgets to respond to the values selected in a "Preset" widget.

For example, if there are 2 sliders, the preset menu could hold values for each of those inputs. When a preset is selected, each of the sliders would change automatically to the value allocated by the preset. This would probably require that the choice widget was extended to hold value pairs.
Rather than just:

Code: Select all

;control Variable "Select a preset from the list" choice "A,B,C" 0

there could be something like:

Code: Select all

;control ListVariable "Select a preset from the list" preset "A,B,C" (-24 2.0)(-12 1.0)(-6 0.0)
;control varX "Input X" int "" (ListVariable 0) -48 0
;control varY "Input Y" real "" (ListVariable 1) 0.0 10.0

Where varX takes it's value from the 0th element of ListVariable and varY takes it's value from the next element.
If the values in ListVariable change (due to a different preset being selected) then controls varX and varY respond to the change in real time.

[steve]

Not directly a "Nyquist issue", but closely related:
Parentheses matching in Nyquist Prompt.

[steve]

Ability to run an Analyze type plug-in without a selection.
For plug-ins that only generate labels it does not always make sense that there must be a selection.

[edgar-rft]

Ability to run an Analyze type plug-in without a selection.
For plug-ins that only generate labels it does not always make sense that there must be a selection.

Does that really make sense? What do you want to analyse if there is no selection? AFAIK a plugin that only generates labels is a Generate plugin and not an Analyse plugin, where a Generate plugin already needs no selection. Or do I have understood something wrong? This sounds irreal.

Feel free to move this question into another thread in case this will become a longer discussion.

[steve]

AFAIK a plugin that only generates labels is a Generate plugin and not an Analyse plugin, where a Generate plugin already needs no selection.

The problem there is that if there is no selection than a Generate plug-in will create an audio track.
"Regular Interval Labels" doesn't analyze anything but is an "analyze" type plug-in.

Probably a better solution would be for a plug-in that only generates labels to be a Generate plugin and not an Analyse plug-in, and for Generate plug-in to only produce an audio track if audio is returned.