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. ;-))
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.
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.
These are mostly for getting it to build on Linux, but I've
also created new configs in Visual Studio to make it easier
to switch between wx2 and wx3.
For Linux, you have to tell configure where to find the wx3
version of the wx-config script and, since some distros build
wxWidgets v3 against GTK+ v3, you may also need to enable
gtk3 with something like:
./configure --enable-gtk3 WX_CONFIG=/usr/bin/wx-config-3.0
On Windows, I've added "wx3-Debug" and "wx3-Release" to the
existing "Debug" and "Release" configurations.
They depend on you having your WXWIN environment variable
pointing to your wx2 directory and a new WXWIN3 environment
variable pointing to your wx3 directory. For instance, I
have:
WXWIN=C:\Users\yam\Documents\wxWidgets-2.8.13
WXWIN3=C:\Users\yam\Documents\wxWidgets-3.0.2
Doing this allows you to switch freely among the 4 configurations
without having to get out of Visual Studio and monkey around with
the environment.
The project files will also add the location of the wxWidgets DLLs
to the PATH when running Audacity from within Visual Studio. They
add %WXWIN%\lib\vc_dll or %WXWIN3%\lib\vc_dll at the beginning
of the PATH variable as appropriate.
I expect that once we convert to wx3 we'll just drop back down to
the normal Debug and Release configurations, but this should make
switching between wx2 and wx3 much easier during the transition.
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.
This change is believed to be a direct refactoring that does not change functionality. It paves the way for more complex kinds of selection, such as selections involving frequency as well as time. It also reduces risk of left and right edges being swapped in future code using SelectedRegion, as the default is to swap on assignment if needed.
Adds a transition from green to yellow starting at -12 db
or (0.50 for linear) and ending at -6 (or .75). A transition
to red then occors to the end of the meter.
Meter preferences have been added and most of the context
menu items have been moved there.
In addition, you may now click the playback meter to reset
the peak level indicator instead of having to click the
record meter.
Completes James' TimeConverter work
This completes the work that James started. It moves most of the non-GUI
related processing from TimeTextCtrl to James' TimeConverter class.
Other changes include:
1) TimeTextCtrl now expects the format name instead of the format string to be
passed when creating a new instance. I found that almost all cases created the
instance with a blank format string and then set the string after creation.
2) To simplify maintenance and prevent a possible discrepancy between the two,
Increase() and Decrease() were merged into a single routine.
As a result:
1) All cases where a TimeTextCtrl was being used to extract information and
not actually display a control have been changed to use TimeConverter instead.
2) All cases where TimeTextCtrl was being created with an empty format and
then immediately followed by something like this:
tt.SetFormatString(tt.GetBuiltinFormat(c->GetFormat()))
have been changed to pass the format name instead of the format string when
creating the TimeTextCtrl instance.
This is part 2...
Improve performance of selection via Selection bar
This provides a similar type of speed up when selecting with the keyboard via
the Selection toolbar.
Make Snap To project specific
This makes the Snap To setting in the selection bar project specific. Changing
it will no longer affect other open projects.
The state is saved to audacity.cfg when the checkbox is changed. This means
that the next project window to open will start with the new value. (As it
should be).
One tricky aspect was that until GetActiveProject() is ready to return non-NULL, ControlToolBar::RegenerateToolsTooltips() cannot get the project's CommandManager, so cannot get the shortcuts. Changed ControlToolBar::RegenerateToolsTooltips() to be public and now call it late in wAudacityProject(). When called before the project is completely instantiated, in the rewritten ControlToolBar::RegenerateToolsTooltips(), it just sets the tooltips to the names without the keys, pretty much as now -- but I don't think users will ever see that because of the subsequent call.
Anyway, did it in a more programmatic way than the previous code, which reduces string literals duplication.
Btw, I changed the start value for the ID_PLAY_BUTTON because the former value of 0 causes FindWindow() to return the toolbar rather than the button -- wxWidgets bug.
Also got rid of some cruft and applied a few WXUNUSED.
