Bug 1389 – Metadata Editor: First character entered in Genre field is not displayed.

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 1389 - Metadata Editor: First character entered in Genre field is not displayed.


Summary:	Metadata Editor: First character entered in Genre field is not displayed.

Status:	RESOLVED QUICKFIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Formats
Version:	2.1.3
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P4 Repeatable
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2016-05-11 17:03 UTC by Gale Andrews
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1 Open Metadata Editor. 2 TAB into the Value cell for Genre. 3 Type a word for example "Therapy" (without quotes). 4 Unlike the other value fields, the first keypress "T" only opens the cell for editing, without entering the character itself. So only "herapy" gets written.
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ gale: Test‑OK‑Mac+ gale: Test‑OK‑Lin+

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Description Gale Andrews 2016-05-11 17:03:40 UTC

Not a regression. It may not be fixable because of the Genres list, but it gets reported as a bug from time to time, despite the workaround being detailed in the Manual. But at least we can document here if it's fixable or not.

Comment 1 James Crook 2016-07-15 07:24:16 UTC

DEVEL-FIX MADE
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/c3ef4d157195b4b4b983df348af5ce2ef31a7137

This fix will also fix forward and backward delete.

Fix is believed to be very low risk.  It is just copying wxWidgets code for text for use with a combo box too.  The main risk would be doing 'texty things' to something that doesn't want text.  Using wxWidgets function Combo() should guarantee we really do have a wxComboBox, and that doing texty things is OK.

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2016-07-15 12:04:38 UTC

Testing on W10 audacity-win-r6828529-2.1.3-alpha-15-jul-16

Tests ok on W10 - still to be tested on Mac and Linux

Comment 3 Gale Andrews 2016-07-18 11:55:33 UTC

Thanks, James. I tested Metadata Editor on Win 7, including inputting in Korean and with ALT + NUMPAD codes. 

Tested OK on Ubuntu 14.04 inputting with English and Czech. 

Tested OK on El Capitan inputting with English and French. I cannot TAB into table cells due to bug 1450, but I faked it by single clicking the text entry for Genre.