Changing the title bar
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Thunderbolt1000T
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Changing the title bar
Is there any way I can change the title bar for an Audacity window? This would be extremely useful when I have multiple Audacity windows open and each one is just titled "Audacity," making it very difficult to tell which one is the active window. Thanks!
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Changing the title bar
We have a possible patch in the code to give untitled projects unique numbers but it hasn't been approved or committed yet.Thunderbolt1000T wrote:Is there any way I can change the title bar for an Audacity window? This would be extremely useful when I have multiple Audacity windows open and each one is just titled "Audacity," making it very difficult to tell which one is the active window.
So short of you compiling Audacity from our source code (it's time consuming to set this up on Windows), the answer to your question is "no", unless of course you prepare some special numbered files which you can import into the program to number the window.
Gale
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Re: Changing the title bar
I'm the author of the of the code patch Gale mentions. The problem is not just you looking at a bunch of identically titled windows but also that many Audacity dialogs also use the window title to specify to which Project the dialog refers--if all the windows have the same default title there is no way to tell which window goes with the dialog.
That being said, if you don't want to apply my patch and compile Audacity for yourself (understandably), the best solution is to get in the habit of immediately doing a File > Save As... and saving an empty Project when you open a new Project window; this has the benefit of changing the window's name to the Project's name and also has some positive side affects during automatic crash recovery and the aforementioned dialog situation.
That being said, if you don't want to apply my patch and compile Audacity for yourself (understandably), the best solution is to get in the habit of immediately doing a File > Save As... and saving an empty Project when you open a new Project window; this has the benefit of changing the window's name to the Project's name and also has some positive side affects during automatic crash recovery and the aforementioned dialog situation.