This changes the realtime preview from using 1 effect for all tracks
to an effect per track (logical track). This should clear up the
bad audio when more than one track (or a stereo track) is present.
An unfortunate side effect is that meter effects no longer work since
the one presented to the user is not the one doing the actual work.
Suggestions on how to remedy this are welcome.
In r13510 I had neglected to build with all local libraries and some of
them needed attention.
So, I also took the opportunity to work out the locale directory and
how to keep it unmolested as well. As a result, all locales are rebuilt
as expected, but into the "build" directory.
As a bonus you may now test Audacity from the "build" directory and have
Nyquist plugins and message catalogs available (so you can test other
languages again without havint to install).
So, again:
mkdir buildme
cd buildme
../configure
make
./audacity
You may now do:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
./audacity
And all but one directory will remain unmolested...no more object files
in "src".
And if you look carefully, you'll see that the newly built "audacity" is
copied to the top of the build tree...no more having to use "src/audacity"
to run.
You can of course still do the configure from the top and get all of the
objects strewn about the tree.
I still haven't figured out how to keep the locale directory from getting
soiled. I'm not really sure there's a way around it really.
The meters are back to the length they used to be (with a little space lost for the grabber). If we want to increase their default lengths then we should look at the space saver idea (make them less tall) or else widen the initial size of Audacity main screen.
I've made it where you can enable and disable via experimentals:
EXPERIMENTAL_REALTIME_EFFECTS
EXPERIMENTAL_EFFECTS_RACK
You will notice that, as of now, the only effects currently set up for
realtime are VSTs. Now that this is in, I will start converting the
rest.
As I start to convert the effects, the astute of you may notice that
they no longer directly access tracks or any "internal" Audacity
objects. This isolates the effects from changes in Audacity and makes
it much easier to add new ones.
Anyway, all 3 platforms can now display VST effects in graphical mode.
Yes, that means Linux too. There are quite a few VSTs for Linux if
you search for them.
The so-called "rack" definitely needs some discussion, work, and attention
from someone much better at graphics than me. I'm not really sure it should
stay in as-is. I'd originally planned for it to be simply a utility window
where you can store your (preconfigured) favorite effects. It should probably
revert back to that idea.
You may notice that this DOES include the API work I did. The realtime effects
were too tied to it and I didn't want to redo the whole thing. As I mentioned
elsewhere, the API stuff may or may not be very future proof.
So, let the critter complaints commence. I absolute KNOW there will be some.
(I know I'll be hearing from the Linux peeps pretty darn quickly. ;-))
ESC Key toggles snapping of center frequency to peaks (no visual indication of snap to yet)
Description added to mouse prefs - fix later.
Shift now required to keep top/bottom frequency pinned whilst (re)dragging the other one.
Code for status bar messages simplified and made more consistent, and no longer hard codes assumption that preferences is Ctrl-P when prompting user about it.
1) No longer have toolbars appearing at top-left of screen.
2) If using an old config, we won't have combined, play and record meter bars all at the same time anymore.
Previously there were three problems:
1) Docking marker calculation was relative to the mouse rather than relative to the top left of the dragged toolbar. On a big toolbar dragged from the bottom of the dragger that could be a long way off.
2) Docking markers appeared too low down. Their position was relative to the middle of the dragged toolbar. However as the toolbar may be resized on placement that does not make sense.
3) Large (Height()>120) toolbars could be thought to be too tall to dock in some places. The positioning code used their current size rather than their minimum size.
We have separate record and play meters. The original kind of meter is now called a combined meter. I've kept it because it can be useful when undocked if you do want both meters. I've also fixed it so that if made very narrow the meters stack vertically just as they already did horizontally.
