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I'm running 1.3.8beta on Mac OSX 10.5.8.

It seems that all preferences are accessible as they ought to be, except
for the Theme tab which shows me the screen below. It seems to be formatted
all wrong, and thus doesn't show me any box to check if I want to load a theme
(I do). Any ideas what is going on here? Is there a way I can manually edit a pref
file so as to make Audacity load the theme? Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks for you help!

The buttons and check boxes are intended to be below the text displayed in your image. Have you got a vertical scrollbar to right of what you show in your image that you can use to scroll down? If not the problem is that there are unintended gaps appearing between the paragraphs in that tab.

The image as far as I know on Mac is loaded from:
~/Library/Application Support/audacity/Theme/ImageCache.png

To load manually, after exiting Audacity you can enter:

[Theme]
LoadAtStart=1

in audacity.cfg (in the same "audacity" folder as above).


Gale

and the download link or somethink?

AndyQ wrote:and the download link or somethink?

Is that a question?

Resizing the window will fix it.

-- Bill

billw58 wrote:Resizing the window will fix it.
-- Bill

Thanks, Bill Just to note for other readers, Theme is not included in Audacity from 1.3.9 onwards until the next 2.1 series of Betas (that is, after the next 2.0 Stable Release).

Bill, are all the other Preferences windows in 1.3.10 OK (in English) for all the text fitting without resizing? If the text becomes too tall for 600 px (due to font size or a particular language causing extra wrapped lines), the intention was that a vertical scrollbar would appear).


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote: Bill, are all the other Preferences windows in 1.3.10 OK (in English) for all the text fitting without resizing? If the text becomes too tall for 600 px (due to font size or a particular language causing extra wrapped lines), the intention was that a vertical scrollbar would appear).
Gale

Gale:
Yes, all the prefs panes are OK (Mac OSX 10.5.8, at least). This is on the latest nightly build. You cannot minimize the window below 600px, so there is no way to tell if the scrollbar does automatically appear. My recollection of the Themes pane was that the scrollbar did appear after resizing, but I'd have to download 1.3.7 to test that. The point is that the scrollbar should be there when you open the Themes pane but only appears after you resize the window.

-- Bill

billw58 wrote:My recollection of the Themes pane was that the scrollbar did appear after resizing, but I'd have to download 1.3.7 to test that. The point is that the scrollbar should be there when you open the Themes pane but only appears after you resize the window.

Gale:
I found a copy of 1.3.8 that I could test this with. When you go to Preferences > Themes the window appears as the OP showed. Expanding the window vertically just a few pixels causes the extra blank lines to go away (i.e. only one extra newline between paragraphs), and the rest of the dialog appears. At that point you cannot shrink the window vertically below the size needed to show the complete dialog. At no point do scrollbars appear.

-- Bill

billw58 wrote:

billw58 wrote:My recollection of the Themes pane was that the scrollbar did appear after resizing, but I'd have to download 1.3.7 to test that. The point is that the scrollbar should be there when you open the Themes pane but only appears after you resize the window.

Gale:
I found a copy of 1.3.8 that I could test this with. When you go to Preferences > Themes the window appears as the OP showed. Expanding the window vertically just a few pixels causes the extra blank lines to go away (i.e. only one extra newline between paragraphs), and the rest of the dialog appears. At that point you cannot shrink the window vertically below the size needed to show the complete dialog. At no point do scrollbars appear.

-- Bill

Thanks, Bill. We'll have to look at this again in 2.1.0. I've made a note of it.



Gale