... which will make it easier to change the types of those containers to
std::vectors of other string-like classes
for wxString,
IsEmpty => empty
Clear => clear
Alloc => reserve
for wxArrayString,
Count => size
GetCount => size
IsEmpty => empty
Add => push_back
Clear => clear
Empty => clear
Sort => std::sort (only with default comparator)
SetCount => resize
Last => back
Item => operator []
Alloc => reserve
All backing bitmaps (not just the one in track panel) now are set to 24 bits.
Big thanks to David Bailes for tracking down the root cause of slow BitBlts, and the comments at https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14403 which led to the fix.
In testing the bitmaps, I also fixed the sizer errors reported for Export.cpp that wxWidgets now reports as ASSERTS when running in debug builds.
... Replace some enum constants with the equivalent values from the more
special-purpose enums, as the wx header files recommend, so overloading
selects the ctors with non-int arguments.
In a full rebuild of the debug project on Mac, this reduces the count of
warnings from 264 to 274.
... and similar wx "variadics," which all treat wxString smartly enough that
you don't need this.
Don't need c_str either to convert wxString to const wxChar * because
wxString has a conversion operator that does the same.
Previously this was hard coded to use the online alphamanual.
Some other help-on-errors paths were hardcoded to use the online manual, and did not use local help even if available, so these were changed too.
Also two naming changes in the code:
ShowHelpDialog() became ShowHelp() because it typically shows the help in your browser, only showing the help in a dialog under certain circumstances.
The helpURL parameter became helpPage since it is usually a page name that is then elaborated into a url.
The Link() function became InnerLink().
Some careful http -> https changes made too.
... with run-time assertions.
I examined each place and reasoned that the narrowing was safe, and commented
why so.
Again, there are places where the sampleCount variable will later be changed
to have a different type, and they are not changed here.
... This makes much code agnostic about how other things (functions and
arguments) are typed.
Many of these neeed to become size_t instead of sampleCount.
I confirmed that the currently used real FFT code in RealFFTf.cpp is faster
than the old one with a quick benchmark that calls PowerSpectrum() on 4-minute
audio file, with different sizes of computation windows:
Window_size: 256 method: new FFT time_s: 0.393
Window_size: 256 method: old FFT time_s: 1.065
Window_size: 1024 method: new FFT time_s: 0.38
Window_size: 1024 method: old FFT time_s: 0.958
Window_size: 4096 method: new FFT time_s: 0.413
Window_size: 4096 method: old FFT time_s: 1.084
Window_size: 16384 method: new FFT time_s: 0.518
Window_size: 16384 method: old FFT time_s: 1.338
Window_size: 65536 method: new FFT time_s: 0.655
Window_size: 65536 method: old FFT time_s: 1.524
Window_size: 262144 method: new FFT time_s: 0.735
Window_size: 262144 method: old FFT time_s: 1.873
Guarding against mDataLen < mWindowSize, as per fix from Steve.
However, also must ensure mAnalyst was initialised, as we otherwise get a different crash when we paint a valid spectrum later, because we don't init mAnalyst when too few samples. To do that init, we must call Recalc before we show the dialog.
Needs to be tested on Mac, because the change from SendRecalcEvent() to Recalc() might conceivably upset the Mac.
