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.
This relies on three new nyquist scripts to actually do the editing. The peak-snapping code in FrequencyWindow has been extracted into a new class, SpectrumAnalyst, to provide peak-snapping in spectrogram too.
Review did not like 'mods'. Was felt to be too non-standard. Note that we gained a '?' on a question to the user, an internationalisation hint about the word 'modules' and the words 'the Audacity Manual' (note caps) in making and 'reverting' this change.
We previously had both 'modules' and 'plug-ins' and the files are called things like mod-script-pipe.dll. Three different things. From a user's point of view it is easier to think of them as modifications to the basic program, like mods in Minecraft. Hence the name change. The search path now has 'mods' in it rather than 'modules'. Didn't see a need to rename the 'Modules' source code as programmers know what modules are and the mods are modules too.
This ensures that the config file remembers a 'fail to load'. We set status to fail before loading a module, that now gets written out to the config file because we flush prefs, the dodgy module loads and crashes, and next time Audacity knows it's a fail. If instead the module loads and does not crash on load, the original status (enabled or ask) is written back to the config file.
Previously MultiDialog attempted to centre on parent dialog, but there was a NULL parent. Now the application top window is used. Dialog shows centred, for example when there are missing block files. If the top window is a WX_STAY_ON_TOP, we move our dialog to the left, as otherwise it would be partially hidden.
Previously Audacity would ask about enabling a module whilst the splash screen was showing. For some as yet undetermined reason the MultiDialog and Splash Screen are incompatible. Possibly it's related to doing a ShowModal before a full application exists. The not ideal workaround is to now delay showing the splash screen until after the modules have been loaded.
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.
We do not now prompt about new modules at start up, unless you set a module to 'ask'. This means we can ship experimental modules with Audacity. Users can enable them if they want to, but aren't troubled by them otherwise.
Saves view type
Defaults to fully expanded upon entry
Live search...may need to adjust the timer
Uses black on white for the icon (should? fix assertion on Linux hopefully)
(will do more a bit later)
