Annoying behavior, which must have a simple fix.

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Edgar
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Re: Annoying behavior, which must have a simple fix.

Post by Edgar » Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:12 pm

TheBori wrote:Edgar,
Thanks for the history and the look into the code. So much for the "simple fix". I would like to try your proposed change, if it's not too difficult. I've been known to get into the registry, etc. But not the innards of Audacity. If you can walk me through it...
There are two ways to proceed.

1) The easiest for you would be to let me send you a "fixed" version of Audacity. The drawback to that is that you must trust me not to create malicious software to install on your computer--something I generally would not recommend.

2) Otherwise you must compile Audacity (and as a prerequisite, wxWidgets). The drawback to that is that you must read and follow a fairly long specific set of posted instructions--something I have stepped a number of others through over the years. There are a few benefits to the second method as well. First, after getting set up to compile Audacity and making that first change,it becomes natural to make other changes which suit your personal needs. Second, it is a real learning experience to get set up to compile Audacity and invokes a real sense of accomplishment when successful. Third is the possibility that it might encourage you to expand your horizons--the ability to program in C++ is not terribly difficult to learn (though tough to master) and can be a useful job skill.

Let me know which of the above two choices suits your needs and I will give what help I can!

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Re: Annoying behavior, which must have a simple fix.

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:39 am

All four toolbars in 1.2.6 stayed on top of all. I'll add your vote as a few people would like the old behaviour, though many did not. We also don't have global hotkeys that work whatever program you are in, which would save you having to have a toolbar on top of all (as I understand it, widgets supports that, but only on Windows).

I guess one "solution" to Preferences "creep" is to confine less common settings to manual editing of audacity.cfg (or possibly to a separate .ini file read with cfg or a separate utility to save users messing up .cfg by accident).


Preferences "creep" discussion continued at http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 15&t=62099 .


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