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Gale Andrews
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by Gale Andrews » Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:45 pm
steve wrote:Robert J. H. wrote:Why has the Audio position to show a value of 0 in stop mode? In this case, it should take the value of the left boundary of the selection in my humble opinion.
I'm unsure what you are observing. As far as I can see it appears to be working correctly. Could you give steps to reproduce the issue (I have NVDA installed on a virtual machine with Windows XP)
Same on Linux. Audio Position shows zeros if there is no playback or recording (or paused state thereof).
It never struck me as a bug. Unless the audio is paused, I can't imagine Audio Position as it is now being useful to visually impaired.
Gale
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Robert J. H.
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by Robert J. H. » Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:29 pm
Gale Andrews wrote:Robert J.H. wrote:the display for negative time values is broken in the 2.0.7 alpha builts (not related to the patch). The screen reader reports only dashes.
I think NVDA is reading what is displayed correctly.
On Windows 7 If I have exactly one second of audio behind zero, 2.0.0 shows for Selection Start:
2.0.6 shows
2.1.0-alpha shows all dashes
Gale
Which is in other words a bug, introduced in the latest code?
I presume that it is caused by the new select frequency spectrum features. It is the common display to indicate that no frequencies are selected.
(It was so with the first frequency selection patches, I can't reach this toolbar anymore)
You're also right about the Audio Position box. That's exactly what I meant. In stop mode, it is just a waste of space.
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steve
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by steve » Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:08 pm
Robert J. H. wrote:Which is in other words a bug, introduced in the latest code?
It was also a bug in earlier versions.
A selection can exist before zero on the timeline.
Although Audacity 2.0.6 will show "-1" in the Selection Toolbar when there is one second of audio behind zero, it goes all to pot beyond 10 seconds behind zero (same in 2.0.5).
The alpha version of Audacity is more broken regarding audio behind zero than the previous release version. With the current svn code, if audio is behind zero and the entire track is selected, it is not possible to adjust the right end of the selection with a mouse.
