General Dev Question - Internal Name of Imported Files

[cpsmusic]

Hi,

I'm currently developing a new audio backend for the 2D animation program Pencil.

I have a question regarding how Audacity names the audio that gets imported into a project's data directory (e0000acc.au, e0000b5b.au, etc.).

How are these names generated and whereabouts does this happen in the source code?

Obviously, these names need to be unique so that the same file can be imported and copied to the data directory multiple times without the risk of overwriting existing files. Am I right in thinking this or am I way off track

Cheers,

Chris

[kozikowski]

The older Audacity used to name them more or less sequentially. The new Audacity has a numbering scheme that makes disaster recovery much easier and comprehensive. I think they're still sequential by creation time and date.

They're not straight sound files and messing with them can cause Audacity and your show to fail. For one thing, they're left-right-left-right. They're mono snippets.

Koz

[steve]

I'm not a developer so I'm not sure, but I think that a good place to start looking is in:
/src/blockfile/SimpleBlockFile.cpp
and
/src/DirManager.cpp

[cpsmusic]

Thanks, the code I was looking for is in DirManager.cpp.

Cheers,

Chris