New plug-in: Tone Generator

[steve]

Similar to the normal Audacity "Tone..." generator, but with extended capabilities.
This plug-in is likely to be of more interest to anyone that is experimenting with Nyquist code than as a production" tool.

Includes presets for generating Sine waves, Triangle waves, Sawtooth waves, Square waves, White Noise and Silence.
May also be used to generate custom waveforms based on snippets of Nyquist code.
The Help menu includes examples of Nyquist code for generating custom tones.

Could someone check on Mac/Windows if the example code snippets can be copied/pasted from the Help screens into the plug-in.
Thanks.

[Update Aug 29 2012: Corrected a few typos in the help screens and corrected some bugs in the error checking code.]

[billw58]

Could someone check on Mac/Windows if the example code snippets can be copied/pasted from the Help screens into the plug-in.

Can't be done on Mac. Perhaps these will need to be in a separate code snippets text file?

-- Bill

[billw58]

A couple of other comments.

1) "Cutom Oscillator"?

2) Creates a track even if you choose to view help, then you're left with an empty track.

-- Bill

[steve]

"Cutom Oscillator"?

Where? Oh yes - updated.

Creates a track even if you choose to view help, then you're left with an empty track.

Unfortunately that can't currently be avoided.
Personally I'd like to be able to display a help file and keep the plug-in open, then the plug-in could be run, using the created track.

Can't be done on Mac. Perhaps these will need to be in a separate code snippets text file?

That's a shame - Is the problem with copying the text rather than pasting the text?

(Thought - I'd be happy to also include user-contributed snippets on an additional help page).

Thanks for testing.

[billw58]

Can't be done on Mac. Perhaps these will need to be in a separate code snippets text file?

That's a shame - Is the problem with copying the text rather than pasting the text?
(Thought - I'd be happy to also include user-contributed snippets on an additional help page).

Can't copy text from the help window.

-- Bill

[Irish]

It's the same on Windows - can't copy from the Help window, but ...
what about putting the examples in the Debug window to copy and paste?
There's not a lot of space, and you would have quotation marks around them, but it would be something.

POL

[Irish]

Just a couple of comments:

1. Custom Oscilators

2. The Debug window appears every time the plug-in is run, irrespective of whether Debug is clicked or not. Is this intentional?

POL

[steve]

Custom Oscilators

Oh poo - I never said I could spell. (updated)

The Debug window appears every time the plug-in is run, irrespective of whether Debug is clicked or not. Is this intentional?

No, not intentional, I think that may be a new bug in Audacity.
Once a plug-in has been run with debug it seems that it will run as debug each time until Audacity is restarted.
It's not specific to this plug-in - it's all Nyquist plug-ins. What do you think - bug or feature?

It's the same on Windows - can't copy from the Help window, but ...
what about putting the examples in the Debug window to copy and paste?

I think that rather than do a dirty hack, I'll just include a text file to cater for inferior operating systems

[Irish]

Once a plug-in has been run with debug it seems that it will run as debug each time until Audacity is restarted.

Strange how I never noticed that until now!
I'd call it a bug. I don't want to have to click to get rid of the Debug window unless I looked for Debug output when running the plug-in.

POL

[steve]

Strange how I never noticed that until now!

I think it's only 1.3.13