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The cursor doesn't move when the left and right arrow keys are pressed on 1.3.11 under Ubuntu 9.10. The keyboard is a generic 101-key PS/2 model. Both the keypad and extended keys do nothing.

No problems with 1.3.9.

I'm also having problems right dragging, but I'll save that for another topic.

Thanks!

Bill

ADDENDUM: They started working again.

Bill

I've also noticed this intermittently - for some reason it seems that this version is prone to loosing "focus". I've not yet found a way to reproduce it at will and I was suspecting that it might have been my imagination. If you find a way to reliably reproduce the problem, please let us know.

Hi! Thanks for writing back.

I've built 1.3.12 CVS just now and the keys don't work again. I'll try to reproduce the problem and let you know.

Should I post a separate topic about another problem I've been having?

Pax.

Bill

ka1ssr wrote: I've built 1.3.12 CVS

I've just built 1.3.12 from SVN

The developers have just uploaded everything to SVN and I presume that CVS will be phased out shortly.
To download from SVN:

ka1ssr wrote:and the keys don't work again

Working perfectly here, at the moment.

ka1ssr wrote:Should I post a separate topic about another problem I've been having?

Yes. That avoids a lot of confusion.

SVN it is. Thanks!

Bill

stevethefiddle wrote:I've also noticed this intermittently - for some reason it seems that this version is prone to loosing "focus". I've not yet found a way to reproduce it at will and I was suspecting that it might have been my imagination. If you find a way to reliably reproduce the problem, please let us know.

Thanks a lot for this hint, I have similar problems and now that I know that it is a focus problem I found an easy workaround at least when I have only one track to edit:

If the error keys don't work just select a new play region (the grey arrow on the time line) and the track gets the focus back.

I also think I found a way to provoke this misbehavior:

1) Click anywhere in a stereo track.
2) Press the play button (the green triangle).
3) After a second or so press the halt button (the two blue lines)

... and the arrow keys don't work anymore plus that all menu items for editing the project are grayed out. Nevertheless there is still a yellow rectangle around the track so the track looks still selected. The above described workaround fixes the problem immediately.

I run Audacity 3.11 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and compiled it on my computer from sources. If anybody wants more details about used libraries etc. just let me know.

FanGanmu wrote:3) After a second or so press the halt button (the two blue lines)

That button is the "PAUSE" button. The "STOP" button has the brown square.
Effects and other menu items are not available while playback is paused - that's not a bug it's intentional.

stevethefiddle wrote: That button is the "PAUSE" button. The "STOP" button has the brown square.
Effects and other menu items are not available while playback is paused - that's not a bug it's intentional.

Thanks a lot for this hint. To be honest for my taste this feels a bit strange as I can use the mouse to make a selection during a paused playback but I cannot use the keyboard for the same purpose. But now that I know what it is I can live quite well with it.

There IS some logic behind it - during "PAUSE", Audacity is still really in "PLAY" mode, but just... paused
In PLAY mode, the cursor keys have a different function (jump forward/back), so they are not available to function as they do when Audacity is stopped.