Bug 1685 – Garbage data in tooltips when hovering over tracks while seeking or scrubbing

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 1685 - Garbage data in tooltips when hovering over tracks while seeking or scrubbing


Summary:	Garbage data in tooltips when hovering over tracks while seeking or scrubbing

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Per OS Windows 10

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

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Reported:	2017-07-14 14:08 UTC by Poke
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1. Start scrubbing by clicking on the scrub bar. (also works with seeking, and with the cursor pinned or unpinned) 2. Move your cursor over a wave track (may work with other types of tracks). 3. Observe that the status bar and tooltip are complete garbage data.
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

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

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Description Poke 2017-07-14 14:08:45 UTC

Created attachment 728 [details]
Screenshot of a garbage tooltip

When scrubbing or seeking, garbage data appears in the status bar and on tooltips when hovering over tracks.  The garbage changes each time the tooltip is refreshed (mouse movement or on a keystroke).

Comment 1 Paul L 2017-07-14 23:02:39 UTC

I do not see the same on Mac, but I see some suspicious code and fixed it at:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/812f3649de2b8e8f789762e0b3502e84745571eb

Comment 2 Poke 2017-07-14 23:38:50 UTC

That seems to have fixed it for me.

Comment 3 Peter Sampson 2017-07-18 11:01:23 UTC

Tested on W10-CE audacity-win-ra9a6f01-2.2.0-alpha-18-jul-17

Tested steps 1-3 with
1) Scrubbing with non-fixed payhead
2) Scrubbing with pinned payhead
1) Seeking with non-fixed payhead
2) Seeking with pinned payhead

In all four use cases the Status bar message is fine (Click and drag to slect audio).

No tooltip is shown.

Looks to be ok on Windows

Comment 4 Peter Sampson 2017-07-20 07:03:54 UTC

(In reply to Paul L from comment #1)
Tested on macOS Sierra 10.12.5 with Cliff's 19Jul17 build

Tested steps 1-3 with
1) Scrubbing with non-fixed payhead
2) Scrubbing with pinned payhead
1) Seeking with non-fixed payhead
2) Seeking with pinned payhead

In all four use cases the Status bar message is fine (Click and drag to slect audio).

No tooltip is shown.

Looks to be ok on Mac

Comment 5 James Crook 2017-07-31 12:42:24 UTC

CLOSED WORKSFORME
Could not reproduce this problem in testing and in comment#2 Poke reports the problem fixed.