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build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:03 pm

Hello,

I am a student in the third year i.e. the bachelor's degree in computer science at the Science Faculty of Angers in France and for part of year I have take part in an open source project.
As a user of Audacity, I am interested in this project, so I want to participate by adding a context menu with functionnality such as copy, paste, save, save as, export, import, read, read loop, pause, mute, undo, redo ...
If you have some suggestions , please don't hesitate to let me know ...
So if you are interested, I wish to programme the menu and send you my modifications as patches.

Thank you in advance,
Quentin.

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Re: build a context menu

Post by steve » Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:07 pm

Hi Quentin,

You may be interested in the proposals for menu reorganisation that are discussed here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Propo ... ganisation as these proposals may impact on the new features that you are proposing.

Also, if you are considering a "right click" context menu, be aware that:
  • Some Mac users still have one button mice
  • Where possible features should be accessible to visually impaired and other non-mouse users.
  • When the zoom tool is selected (F4 key), right click performs "zoom out".
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Re: build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:45 pm

Hi Steve,

thank you for this quick reply, I'll carefully study this link.
I thought for zoom:
By defaul the menu is active and if you press F4 you turn on the zoom and turn off the menu and if you press again F4 you turn off the zoom and turn on the menu.
Thank you again.

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Re: build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:22 am

I finished the context menu and then if you want me to add some functionalities, please let me know.
And thank you again for the advice, Quentin

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Re: build a context menu

Post by steve » Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:30 pm

Bquentin wrote:I finished the context menu
Are your patches publicly available?
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Re: build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:32 am

I do my last test, and I think publishing the patch this weekend.

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Re: build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:53 am

Hi Steve,

I published my patch, but i have no automatic response. I know that they have many mail and it's difficult to them to read all. Have you a possibility to see if you have recieved my mail the topic is : [audacity] [TrackPanel] New Patch for popupmenu .

Thanks per advance,
Quentin

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Re: build a context menu

Post by steve » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:20 pm

Bquentin wrote:I published my patch,
Is that this one: http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/Pa ... 18743.html
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Re: build a context menu

Post by Bquentin » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:55 pm

The last is : http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/au ... 32329.html

Thanks for the link.
Quentin.

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Re: build a context menu

Post by steve » Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:34 pm

Thanks Quentin. I'm not a programmer, but I can try your patch and I'll post feedback when I've had chance to try it.
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