Win10/3.1.3
Each day I spend at least 30 minutes recording and 60 minutes “raw editing”. These processes involve:-
Saving my audio clips (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Shift+E) as a track
Closing the track
Reopening the track as a single clip (Ctrl+Shift+I)
Opening a new project (Ctrl+Shift+N) as a scratch file to re-record snippets of text
Copy/Pasting between the two projects
and more
These processes may see me shut down Audacity (Alt+F, X) and then reload it after lunch for a Fresh Start.
Here I am, a late start to be sure. At 10:49 Audacity is ready to start recording. I have dragged the clock and re-sized it so that I can keep an eye on when it is time for me to stretch my legs and/or check on the rising bread dough in the kitchen.
And here I am almost six hours later (fresh bread = a long lunch!), on the last leg of the day’s track.
Note that the clock digits and the clock “box” have shrunk throughout the day.
I have not managed to work out exactly when the clock shrinks; that is, what series of my actions cause a quantum change in size, but will try to isolate it if any suggestion can be made.
This is not much more than a slight annoyance, but as usual, I believe that a slight error somewhere can unbalance something elsewhere. So if nothing else I would be happy if this can be added to a to-do list that embraces the clock size.
Thanks
Chris
Hi Peter, and thanks. As a long-time programmer I have been trying to determine when the size change occurs, but with both eyes fixed on the text I have not yet spotted the instant the size changes, or even the event which triggers the change. For all I know it might be a pixel change every ten seconds!
On top of recording 5,000 words per day, I am also testing a method of parsing JSMill’s rambling 1830s-era sentences into breathable phrases, so I have other stuff on my mind.
I am not actually waiting six hours between launches. The time is 6:26 as i type this; I might start a short and simple Section (1,500) at 7:00 and be done reading by 7:30, done editing by 8:00, then start the next section. Or this first section might be 9,100 words with a lunch break in the middle and three leg-stretch breaks. I could reload Audacity every half-hour if I/you thought that might be a fix for this annoyance. I don’t mind poking Audacity with a stick to see how it responds.
As far as I have been able to note, it is only this clock toolbar that is effected by change; at least in any visible sense, so it seems to me that if there is a resize_the_clock_toolbar piece of code, it is invoked during a recording/editing session.
Anyway, let this thread be a record that once upon a time, on a remote peninsula swept by freezing-rain storms …
Just a wild guess: If you open “Preferences” and then click “OK”, does that resize the clock?
(It doesn’t for me on Linux, but this is one of the few places in the code where a bug could possibly cause the symptom that you describe).
Just for the record, this was the smallest rendition (most shrinkage) I saw over the past few weeks; it shrank to this size at the end of a long session of editing a series of FAC files.
I still have not detected a trigger.
Cheers
Chris
Steve, my apologies. I missed this response from almost a fortnight ago.
I am for a short while finished using Audacity, as the large JSMill project is done, and I have not started a new project. But I will experiment with “Preferences” once I get going again.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Chris
I couldn’t find it either, so I logged it.
I don’t expect it will be fixed any time soon, but now that it’s logged it’s possible that someone might look at fixing it.
