Need beta testers (especially Mac users)

[Edgar]

I have been asked by the Audacity development team to investigate the following bug. At first I was under the impression that the bug was in all versions of Audacity but it appears that the Linux version does not exhibit this bug. I need to know what the behavior on Mac is and if all versions of Linux behave the same way.

May I ask some Mac and Linux users to perform the following test and report? Please include your operating system (version and service packs if applicable)and whether or not you experienced the bug (selection of the wrong/next item).

To experience the bug:
*Start Audacity, open Preferences editor, navigate to Keyboard.
*(On Windows) With the Key Bindings panel open, click on the word "Command" (a column heading -- this moves focus from the preferences pages list to the key binding column without selecting an item).
(On Linux) With the Key Bindings panel open, click on the word "New" (this moves focus from the preferences pages list to the key binding column but selects an item).
(On Mac) I have no idea, try both of the above.
*Press the <s> key; note that (on Windows) the list item "Save Project As..." is selected (takes focus and is highlighted), when the item immediately preceding it "Save Project" should have been selected.
*Now try pressing the <i> key; note that (on Windows) the list item “Import Labels..." is selected when the "Import Audio..." should have been selected.

If someone compiling on the Mac would like to test my repair, here it is; simply commenting out all the code in the function:
void KeyConfigPrefs::OnKeyDown(wxListEvent & e) in file:
audacity/src/prefs/KeyConfigPrefs.cpp
at line # 396 (in the current CVS head which I just checked out a moment ago), eliminates the problem on Windows.

Try commenting out the code in the function as noted above. Run the above test again.


You need to comment ALL the code in the function out (removing the function requires a bit more work--editing the EVENT_TABLE etc.--which I do for the real repair) this leaves an empty function stub:
Function
{
//every
//line
/* or
Do
It this
Way*/
}

Thanks!

[kozikowski]

Mac Mini
1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB memory

Mac OS-X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
Clean install. No other applications except Audacity.

Audacity 1.3.10 Oct 17 2009
Lame installed.

The s key gives me "Spectrograms."
The i key gives me Interface."

And nobody will reveal that you posted a request for Mac 1.3 users in the Windows 1.2 forum. That will be our secret.

Audacious!

Koz

[Edgar]

The s key gives me "Spectrograms."
The i key gives me Interface."

And nobody will reveal that you posted a request for Mac 1.3 users in the Windows 1.2 forum. That will be our secret.

Audacious!

Koz

Hi Koz!

I hope you are better at keeping a secret that I am <grin>! I did not want to double post but I suppose that would be my best bet. As for 1.2/1.3 this is a 1.2 bug as well. I suppose I should quadruple post!

Given that your above reply shows that the left-hand panel still had focus, could you click on the first item in the right-hand panel (should be New...) then perform the test again.

Can you compile Audacity?

Thanks for the info.

[waxcylinder]

Ed,

I moved your original posting to this section of the forum as it had the thread development between you and Koz. I dleted the duplicate post you put here - and I deleted the Report you made on the double post.

WC

[Edgar]

Ed,

I moved your original posting to this section of the forum as it had the thread development between you and Koz. I dleted the duplicate post you put here - and I deleted the Report you made on the double post.

WC

Thank you!

[steve]

Ubuntu 9.04
Audacity 1.3.9 (Unicode) Sept 2nd - no problem here - first press of "i" selects "Import Audio".
Audacity 1.3.10 (Unicode) Oct 1st - no problem here - first press of "i" selects "Import Audio".

[kozikowski]

I'm getting that Doris Day / Rock Hudson Movie feeling where they're having one conversation about two completely different things and it doesn't get resolved until 90 minutes in.

This is what it looks like when I launch the above mentioned Audacity and Preferences panel...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity//pix ... 7%20PM.png

Then I press s ...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity//pix ... 3%20PM.png

Then I close and reopen the windows and press i ...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity//pix ... 8%20PM.png


I've never posted .png files before. Let me know if you can't see them.

Koz

[kozikowski]

<<<Can you compile Audacity?>>>

What is this "compiling" thing of which you speak?

Koz

[Edgar]

<<<Can you compile Audacity?>>>
I'm getting that Doris Day / Rock Hudson Movie feeling
[...]
What is this "compiling" thing of which you speak?
Koz

Did Doris Day get to sing in that movie <grin>? Your experience on the Mac and stevethefiddle's experience on Linux are distinctly different. Try this, open the preferences panel and navigate to the Keyboard Blinding pane, now click on the first item (New...). Now, press the i key; "Import Audio..." should be selected. What happens on your Mac?

As for compiling, that refers to building the Audacity project completely from scratch using the freely available open source code. It is not hard to do and there are free compilers available for Windows and Linux (I'm not sure about Mac).

[billw58]

Edgar:
Here's what happens on my Mac (G5 Dual 2 GHz PPC, OSX 10.5.8)

Open Preferences
Click Keyboard
press <tab> - "Command" drop-down menu has focus
press <tab> - the shortcut list has focus, but the first item is not selected
type <s> - nothing appears to happen
type <j> - nothing appears to happen
Click on "New" in the list
press <s> - "New" is un-highlighted
press <j> - the list scrolls so that "Join" is visible at the bottom of the list, but nothing is highlighted
press <down-arrow> - "New" is selected and list scrolls to make it visible
press <down-arrow> - "Open" is properly selected
click on "Save Compressed copy of project" (last in the first group of S's)
press <s> - list scrolls so that "Split" is visible at the bottom of the list, but nothing is highlighted
press <down-arrow> - "New" is highlighted

So it's kind of half working. Typing <s> (for example) scrolls the list (if needed) to display the next command starting with "S". But the row in the list is not highlighted and the text box is not filled in. Pressing <down-arrow> at this point always selects the first item in the list.

-- Bill

PS: I've been involved in a long thread on -devel about this.

PPS: Mac users have access to all the usual Linux tools for compiling, as well as XCode, Apple's IDE.

PPPS: I am not a developer! I know what "compiling" is, but would not want to mess with C++ code.