This changes the autosave XML file to a binary representation
during writing to speed up autosave processing. A lot of the
time used during autosave is a result of having to convert and
print all of the values to the XML file.
Writing the same information, but in binary format, reduces
all of that to just the bare essentials and the actual write
I/O.
During recovery, the binary file is read and converted to
the real xML representation and processing happens as it
did before.
It is a noticeable difference with very long or many tracks.
The included fix has to do with append recording.
Say you have 3 tracks and you want to append recorded audio
to the middle track. Sometime later Audacity crashes and
upon recovery, the recorded audio is actually appended to
the third track, not the second one.
This fixes that by adding an "autosaveid" to each track as
it is written to the autosave file. The same ID is written
to the recording recovery appends to the autosave file.
Then, during recovery, the IDs are matched up and the audio
gets appended to the proper track.
These autosaveid attributes are only present in the autosave
file and not in saved project files.
A 4hr track used to take about 20s to cut a few samples. This is now significantly improved, to around 3s. Leland did this by
(a) moving the size calculation to when we examine the undo history, so it isn't slowing down the edits.
(b) in size calculation, using sizes that are cached rather than going to disk to find the sizes.
(c) writing the autosave file which is to an FFIle to a string first, i.e. using XMLStringWriter as a buffer for XMLFileWriter.
Step (c) may also make autosave marginally safer, as the risk of a partially updated autosave file is reduced.
Correct string formatting for:
2/15 %d + enum => %d + int
3/15 %lld + int64_t => %lld + long long
4/15 %d + int64_t => %lld + long long
5/15 %d + double => %f + double
6/15 %d + int32_t => %d + int
7/15 %d + intptr_t => %p + void*
8/15 gint, guint
9/15 %d + long => %ld + long
10/15 %n + int => %d + int
11/15 %x + int => %x + unsigned int
12/15 %f + int => %d + int
13/15 %S + wxChar* => %s + wxChar*
14/15 %d + size_t => %d + int
15/15 %d + size_t => %lld + long long
"The functions wxString::Format, wxString::Printf (and others indirectly) have become stricter about parameter types that don't match (format specifier vs. function parameters). So the bugs (that were already present in audacity before) become visible in wx3.0 as error message dialogs. I've checked all occurrences of Printf, wxPrintf, PrintfV, Format, FormatV, wxLogDebug and wxLogError systematically and made the type match."
Note (9/15): In TrackPanel.cpp, ExportMP2.cpp and CompareAudioCommand.cpp this patch supersedes related change done in r13466 because the new solution requires fewer casts and therefore simplifies the code.
Note: Many .po files are affected, and we need to be very careful about this. Incorrect "%d" and similar in translation files may lead to crashes in those languages (only). This is something we should actually have been more careful about in the past. We need to write a script to check that the "%d" and similar format specifiers match between English and translation.
We can't go to 3.0.1 yet as there are still build issues on
Linux and OSX. You can get Windows to build, but there's
still some display issues.
These changes should work with wxWidgets 2.8.12 as well, so
we can take our time to get things working properly before
switching over.
better handling of error conditions in PCMAliasBlockFile::BuildFromXML so that DirManager::ProjectFSCK can report cases of missing PCMAliasBlockFile files on opening projects where missing files were not corrected
