status bar state field. When you move to the menubar, the state field is no longer cleared. This was achieved by introducing a dummy field of width 0. When you first open a new audacity project, the state is stopped - previously the state only appeared after the first play/pause/etc command.

src/Project.cpp

@@ -781,7 +781,14 @@ AudacityProject::AudacityProject(wxWindow * parent, wxWindowID id,
      mMenuClose(false)
      , mbInitializingScrollbar(false)
 {
-   mStatusBar = CreateStatusBar(3);
+   // Note that the first field of the status bar is a dummy, and it's width is set
+   // to zero latter in the code. This field is needed for wxWidgets 2.8.12 because
+   // if you move to the menu bar, the first field of the menu bar is cleared, which
+   // is undesirable behaviour.
+   // In addition, the help strings of menu items are by default sent to the first
+   // field. Currently there are no such help strings, but it they were introduced, then
+   // there would need to be an event handler to send them to the appropriate field.
+   mStatusBar = CreateStatusBar(4);
 
    wxGetApp().SetMissingAliasedFileWarningShouldShow(true);
 
@@ -1014,11 +1021,12 @@ AudacityProject::AudacityProject(wxWindow * parent, wxWindowID id,
 
    mTrackFactory = new TrackFactory(mDirManager);
 
-   int widths[] = {GetControlToolBar()->WidthForStatusBar(), -2, -1};
-   mStatusBar->SetStatusWidths(3, widths);
+   int widths[] = {0, GetControlToolBar()->WidthForStatusBar(mStatusBar), -2, -1};
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusWidths(4, widths);
    wxString msg = wxString::Format(_("Welcome to Audacity version %s"),
                                    AUDACITY_VERSION_STRING);
-   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, 1);
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, mainStatusBarField);
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(GetControlToolBar()->StateForStatusBar(), stateStatusBarField);
    mLastStatusUpdateTime = ::wxGetUTCTime();
 
    mTimer = new wxTimer(this, AudacityProjectTimerID);
@@ -3527,7 +3535,7 @@ bool AudacityProject::Save(bool overwrite /* = true */ ,
       wxRemoveFile(safetyFileName);
 
    mStatusBar->SetStatusText(wxString::Format(_("Saved %s"),
-                                              mFileName.c_str()), 1);
+                                              mFileName.c_str()), mainStatusBarField);
 
    return true;
 }
@@ -4345,7 +4353,7 @@ void AudacityProject::OnTimer(wxTimerEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
          else
             msg.Printf(_("Out of disk space"));
 
-         mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, 1);
+         mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, mainStatusBarField);
       }
    }
    else if(ODManager::IsInstanceCreated())
@@ -4366,7 +4374,7 @@ void AudacityProject::OnTimer(wxTimerEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
 
 
             msg.Printf(_("On-demand import and waveform calculation complete."));
-            mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, 1);
+            mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, mainStatusBarField);
 
          }
          else if(numTasks>1)
@@ -4377,7 +4385,7 @@ void AudacityProject::OnTimer(wxTimerEvent& WXUNUSED(event))
              ratioComplete*100.0);
 
 
-         mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, 1);
+         mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, mainStatusBarField);
       }
    }
 }
@@ -4566,7 +4574,7 @@ void AudacityProject::EditClipboardByLabel( WaveTrack::EditDestFunction action )
 // TrackPanel callback method
 void AudacityProject::TP_DisplayStatusMessage(wxString msg)
 {
-   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, 1);
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(msg, mainStatusBarField);
    mLastStatusUpdateTime = ::wxGetUTCTime();
 }
 
@@ -4813,9 +4821,9 @@ void AudacityProject::OnAudioIORate(int rate)
    display = wxString::Format(_("Actual Rate: %d"), rate);
    int x, y;
    mStatusBar->GetTextExtent(display, &x, &y);
-   int widths[] = {GetControlToolBar()->WidthForStatusBar(), -1, x+50};
-   mStatusBar->SetStatusWidths(3, widths);
-   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(display, 2);
+   int widths[] = {0, GetControlToolBar()->WidthForStatusBar(mStatusBar), -1, x+50};
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusWidths(4, widths);
+   mStatusBar->SetStatusText(display, rateStatusBarField);
 }
 
 void AudacityProject::OnAudioIOStartRecording()

src/Project.h

@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ enum PlayMode {
    loopedPlay
 };
 
+enum StatusBarField {
+   stateStatusBarField = 1,
+   mainStatusBarField = 2,
+   rateStatusBarField = 3
+};
+
 // XML handler for <import> tag
 class ImportXMLTagHandler : public XMLTagHandler
 {

src/Screenshot.cpp

@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ void ScreenFrame::DoCapture(wxString captureMode)
 
    mCommand->SetParameter(wxT("CaptureMode"), captureMode);
    if (!mCommand->Apply(mContext))
-      mStatus->SetStatusText(wxT("Capture failed!"), 1);
+      mStatus->SetStatusText(wxT("Capture failed!"), mainStatusBarField);
    Show();
 }
 

src/commands/CommandTargets.h

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public:
    {}
    virtual void Update(wxString message)
    {
-      mStatus.SetStatusText(message, 1);
+      mStatus.SetStatusText(message, mainStatusBarField);
    }
 };
 

src/toolbars/ControlToolBar.cpp

@@ -1082,13 +1082,8 @@ void ControlToolBar::ClearCutPreviewTracks()
 }
 
 // works out the width of the field in the status bar needed for the state (eg play, record pause)
-int ControlToolBar::WidthForStatusBar()
+int ControlToolBar::WidthForStatusBar(wxStatusBar* const sb)
 {
-   AudacityProject* p = GetActiveProject();
-   if (!p)
-      return 100;  // dummy value to keep things happy before the project is fully created
-
-   wxStatusBar* sb = p->GetStatusBar();
    int xMax = 0;
    int x, y;
 
@@ -1110,7 +1105,7 @@ int ControlToolBar::WidthForStatusBar()
    return xMax + 30;    // added constant needed because xMax isn't large enough for some reason, plus some space.
 }
 
-void ControlToolBar::UpdateStatusBar()
+wxString ControlToolBar::StateForStatusBar()
 {
    wxString state;
 
@@ -1129,6 +1124,11 @@ void ControlToolBar::UpdateStatusBar()
 
    state.Append(wxT("."));
 
-   GetActiveProject()->GetStatusBar()->SetStatusText(state);
+   return state;
+}
+
+void ControlToolBar::UpdateStatusBar()
+{
+   GetActiveProject()->GetStatusBar()->SetStatusText(StateForStatusBar(), stateStatusBarField);
 }
 

src/toolbars/ControlToolBar.h

@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ class ControlToolBar:public ToolBar {
    virtual void ReCreateButtons();
    void RegenerateToolsTooltips();
 
-   int WidthForStatusBar();
+   int WidthForStatusBar(wxStatusBar* const);
+   wxString StateForStatusBar();
 
  private: