I’ve just recently tried Audacity 2-1-2 [on Windows Vista].
I’ve repeatedly been getting this display : each toolbar on a new line, ( an arrangement I’ve never seen before ).
Fixable by resetting toolbars , ( but newbies are going to have difficulty finding that reset ).
Sometimes this arrangement of toolbars appears when I have two Audacity windows open & I close one of them.
While we’re on the subject , on 2-1-2 the vertical scroll-bar becomes too-big when the Audacity window is reduced in size : that restricts vertical scrolling …
I sometimes get funny toolbar arrangements if I reduce the window size too much.
I can’t reproduce horizontal or vertical scrolling problems on reduced window sizes on W10 with 2.1.2 or alpha 2.1.3
Peter
Also I tried it on XP (I don’t have Vista any longer) and there was not a problem.
Can you write steps out Trebor from a fresh audacity.cfg that make it happen for you?
Gale
The first problem “each toolbar on a new line” was an intermittent fault . Since creating a new “audacity.cfg” , (years since I last did that ), seems to have cured it.
Yes, thanks, so I was not pursuing that.
I’m interested in pursuing the problem with the vertical scrollbar if you have steps. There was (or may still be) something similar to this on Bugzilla, but I can’t make any bad behaviour happen with what I tried so far.
Gale
On second thoughts the scroll bar behaviour may be a feature rather than a bug.
It IS possible to have the right track appear in a narrowed window if the display is expanded to the fullest extent
in the full-screen window, then reducing the size of the window.
When adjusting the size of a browser window, the vertical scroll bar changes size accordingly …
Audacity scroll bars don’t behave like that when the window size is reduced.
There is a repeatable bug (tested on Linux).
Correct behaviour:
- Open an Audacity window and scale it to almost the size of the monitor display, but not “maximized”.
- Generate a waveform.
- Drag down the bottom of the track to near the bottom of the track window.
- Drag a corer of the main window to make the Audacity interface smaller.
A vertical scrollbar is produced.
Moving the scrollbar up / down allows you to see any part (top, middle or bottom) of the track.
Bug behaviour
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Open an Audacity window and size it fairly small.
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Maximize the window using the “maximize window” button.
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Generate a waveform.
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Drag down the bottom of the track to near the bottom of the track window.
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Un-maximize the Audacity window by clicking the “maximize / restore” window button (or whatever it’s called).
A vertical scrollbar is produced.
Bug. It is not possible to scroll down far enough to see the bottom of the track. -
Resize the window a bit larger or smaller by dragging a corner of the main Audacity window.
It is now possible to see any part of the track.
OK so you cannot do a drag down that shows all the track height in the scroll in a maximised window if you then restore down that window to close to minimum height (I see that on Windows too).
Trebor seems to be saying that you cannot do a drag down that shows all the track height in the scroll in a window of small height. You have to do the drag down first in a tall (not maximised) window. But I still cannot seem to produce an image like this:
by doing the drag down in a window of small height.
Gale
- Open an Audacity window and size it fairly small.
- Maximize the window using the “maximize window” button.
- Generate a waveform.
- Drag down the bottom of the track to near the bottom of the track window.
- Un-maximize the Audacity window by clicking the “maximize / restore” window button (or whatever it’s called).
Yes I already said I can reproduce that, thanks. 
What I cannot reproduce is the need to first drag the window taller before dragging down the track, as opposed to doing the track drag down in a window of small height. I thought that was what Trebor was saying.
Gale
Argh !, the toolbar problem is back …
I did say it was an intermittent problem. Maybe it’s a Vista thing. I recently read only <2% currently use Vista, so maybe time for me to bite-the-bullet and move over to a more modern Windows OS.
Just noticed Audacity’s screenshot tools aren’t working with my 2-1-2 on Vista combination, e.g.
Not a problem for me : I have other screengrab tools , just thought I’d mention it for completeness.