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Gale Andrews wrote: Are you (Ed) willing to do a patch for plan A) (upper case) some time?

Willing but not able, sorry. Doing a "fade" is outside my comfort zone - it would take me way too long to figure out how to do it with the 2.1.x code base given all the possible meter combinations (combined, divorced, floating, vertical & horizontal). I also think it would be better to wait until the current code gets a good shakeout by the public - we know that there are still display bugs so any patch would rapidly become stale as the Developers work on these files.

Edgar wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote: Are you (Ed) willing to do a patch for plan A) (upper case) some time?

Willing but not able, sorry. Doing a "fade" is outside my comfort zone - it would take me way too long to figure out how to do it with the 2.1.x code base given all the possible meter combinations (combined, divorced, floating, vertical & horizontal). I also think it would be better to wait until the current code gets a good shakeout by the public - we know that there are still display bugs so any patch would rapidly become stale as the Developers work on these files.

OK. Does it help if we drop the fade from the patch?

If no, don't let's have this epic thread produce nothing. Can we agree to write a proposal for this (probably with an associated Bugzilla enhancement issue)?


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:

Edgar wrote:Doing a "fade" is outside my comfort zone

OK. Does it help if we drop the fade from the patch?

Not really. Either way (fading out or erasing completely after a set time period) requires doing something with a timer from within code which is being called on a timer event. That scares me (from a design point) especially since I have no way of debugging/testing on Mac (I am also hesitant to set up my only computer to dual-boot Linux/Windows).

Gale Andrews wrote:Can we agree to write a proposal for this (probably with an associated Bugzilla enhancement issue)?

If one of the Proposal gurus wishes to turn this thread into one, it's all right with me; quite frankly though, I do not see much point in it as, IMHO, the Developers pay little or no attention to the Proposals.

Edgar wrote:IMHO, the Developers pay little or no attention to the Proposals.

Some do, some don't. Some prefer to see a brief outline of a proposal as an "enhancement" issue on bugzilla. Others prefer to see the detail on the wiki. No reason not to do both and cross-reference them. The wiki is much better suited to handling the detail. Bugzilla is good as a summary that can be more easily tracked (but not good for long, detailed discussion).

Edgar wrote:(I am also hesitant to set up my only computer to dual-boot Linux/Windows).

Linux could well break Windows booting (unless you install Ubuntu's WUBI which is a bit like installing an app in Windows).

WUBI doesn't work with Windows 8 but I boot XP/7/8 and Ubuntu using "Easy BCD" (Windows app).

Ubuntu in situ upgrades don't always work very well so when I upgrade Ubuntu I just start over in the same partition. That breaks Windows boot, but Startup repair on the Win 7 CD gets me into Win 7 then I can fix the other Windows boots using Easy BCD.


Gale

steve wrote: No reason not to do both and cross-reference them. The wiki is much better suited to handling the detail. Bugzilla is good as a summary that can be more easily tracked (but not good for long, detailed discussion).

+1 to that, way to go ...

BUMP

Is someone going to write a proposal for this - or develop the code?

Or do I just transfer this to the "In-Depth Feature Discussions Archive" section?

waxcylinder wrote:BUMP

Is someone going to write a proposal for this - or develop the code?

Or do I just transfer this to the "In-Depth Feature Discussions Archive" section?

I think there are lots of good ideas here, and votes to be counted.

I'm moderately motivated to write a proposal, having spent so long on this topic, but that doesn't mean I will write it soon. I have writing the proposal on a ToDo list which also does not make it happen.

I would suggest you transfer this to "In-Depth" and link to it in PFR. Then at least it has a placeholder on Wiki.


Gale

And I'm assuming that this thread: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 20&t=83990
is related and needs a link in that Wiki PFR transfer - correct?

Peter.