Audacity 2.1.2 Alpha - Zoom in moves cursor

[Gale Andrews]

Just checking in to see if there are enough fixes yet to make it worth downloading a nightly build to test. Other than the known issues, focus, zoom, tool tips, etc. with the version you compiled, audacity-macosx-r5f985a2-2.1.2-alpha.zip, it has been solid for all I've done with it. Actually I'm getting to like using the keyboard shortcuts to work around the focus issue with the tool bar tools.

Paul Livesey who was making the Mac Nightly Builds can no longer do so because building Audacity on Mac now requires later OS X and/or hardware than he has.

I've posted the latest Mac build (ZIP) on http://gaclrecords.org.uk/test-builds/ if you would like to give it a run. As usual, you may have to right-click > Open to launch Audacity, once extracted.

Bug 1197 – Extreme zoomed in levels move view, losing cursor or selection has been fixed for Windows and Linux but it is still not quite right on Mac. The amount of view wandering is less now than it was, but you still lose the cursor or selection edge when zooming into maximum level on long tracks (unless you are near the start of the track).

Bug 1203 – Mac OS X: Clicking in most upper dock toolbars or in the Timeline removes focus seems fixed to me, but as noted in the last comment there is a new issue in 2.1.2 that using an undocked toolbar removes focus from the track on Mac, but did not do so in 2.1.1. Anyway, I should close 1203 and split off the remaining issues which I'll do presently.

Here is a list of Devel-Fixed, high priority first bugs. This means we are waiting testing to close those bugs. If you would like to test any of those and report back, that would be very welcome.

Note that a bug might apply to Mac, even if it it is only marked as "Windows" - the platform is just the platform the bug was reported on.

If you would like to help with testing more formally, I could give you an account on Audacity Bugzilla so you could comment directly there in the bug reports. If you are interested in that, please send me a Private Message.

Thanks,

Gale

[cmac185]

Gale,

That's quite the list of bugs. I'll test what I can.

Cliff

[cmac185]

Bug 1197 – Extreme zoomed in levels move view, losing cursor or selection has been fixed for Windows and Linux but it is still not quite right on Mac. The amount of view wandering is less now than it was, but you still lose the cursor or selection edge when zooming into maximum level on long tracks (unless you are near the start of the track).

Bug 1203 – Mac OS X: Clicking in most upper dock toolbars or in the Timeline removes focus seems fixed to me, but as noted in the last comment there is a new issue in 2.1.2 that using an undocked toolbar removes focus from the track on Mac, but did not do so in 2.1.1. Anyway, I should close 1203 and split off the remaining issues which I'll do presently.

I can verify your observations on Bug 1203 description, Comment 12.

On Bug 1197 it seems to be inconsistent. Initially I tested it and it lost the cursor at the last zoom step or two. Later I went back and restested it, without closing and reopening Audacity and I could zoom all the way down regardless of where I was in a track of 1hr 6min. The track view did shift around back and forth toward the end, but the cursor remained visible. Closing the latest test version and running the one from Sept 9 and then closing that and reopening the latest one installed today again the cursor got lost just at the last zoom step. You've probably already noticed this, but the cursor doesn't really move, but it is the whole display of the track that shifts now. Before it would lose it entirely it seemed. Definite improvement so as you said it's almost there. At least I can zoom back out a step and get it back where I couldn't before. The inconsistency is what seems strange as well as the track view shifting left and right as the zoom increases in the last 5 steps or so.

Cliff