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/commands/CommandTargets.h

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