Audacity Forum

Just a couple of comments:

1. Custom Oscilators

2. The Debug window appears every time the plug-in is run, irrespective of whether Debug is clicked or not. Is this intentional?

POL

It's the same on Windows - can't copy from the Help window, but ...
what about putting the examples in the Debug window to copy and paste?
There's not a lot of space, and you would have quotation marks around them, but it would be something.

POL

I sgree there could be confusion when /home is actually part of the file path (though that's something that isn't a problem on Windows ;) ). Maybe there should be something else in the text box instead of "HOME directory"? Default directory? User directory? Default file path? Nothing I came up with ...

Here is version 2.3 of the 78EQCurveGen plug-in which, I hope, addresses the issues with previous versions. Changes in this version include: Reformating Help to a max of 50 characters and 25 lines per page. The plug-in now determines the home directory from the OS, using the "get-env" function, and ...

I think it may actually cover all cases, since 1.3 is not supported on Windows 95 or NT.

POL

It would seem from the results reported above, that we should use (or (get-env "HOME") (get-env "UserProfile")) to identify the user's home directory, and that directory is the appropriate place to write output data from Nyquist. On Windows, "HOME" returns NIL and "UserProfile" returns a valid, user...

On XP, it returns C:Documents and Settings<username>
On Vista, it returns C:Users<username>

POL

Update: Got it!
The .cfg file had the following lines, a hangover from an earlier version;

[Theme]
LoadAtStart=1

Changing to LoadAtStart=0 got rid of the problem.

POL

Update: it's something in the .cfg file that's doing it, though I haven't figured out what.
Deleting the .cfg file solved the problem, and restoring the old .cfg restored the problem as well.

POL

It is the Windows binary http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/audacity- ... -alpha.zip in both cases, and the "About ..." dialog says Oct 18.

I downloaded it again today to check on XP-SP3, and got the same result.
I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but that's what I'm seeing.

POL