Bug 1710 – The Incredible Shrinking Toolbar

••• Introduction •••
••• Keywords •••

Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

Audacity Bugzilla

Bug 1710 - The Incredible Shrinking Toolbar


Summary:	The Incredible Shrinking Toolbar

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.2.0
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P3 RepeatableAll
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

URL:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2017-08-02 12:53 UTC by James Crook
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:	1371
Steps To Reproduce:	1. Detach the device toolbar from the dock. 2. Drag it to a new position. 3. Repeat step 2 (say 50 time, but just doing a few times shows the problem). Result: The contents of the toolbar decreases in width with each repetition of step 2.
Release Note:	GROUP: Interface * The Device Toolbar width can shrink as you move the undocked toolbar around. WORKAROUND: Use the resize handle to resize and restore the width of the contents.
First Git SHA:
Group:	---
Workaround:
Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

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

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description James Crook 2017-08-02 12:53:25 UTC

Device toolbar contents width shrink with each movement of the toolbar.

Workaround: Drag the resize handle to restore a sensible width.

Comment 1 Peter Sampson 2017-08-02 13:31:37 UTC

OOh so it does - that's not good.

But also note that with a brand new audacity.cfg it is possible to stretch the Device Toolbar wider than it;s contents/
1) Trash audacity.cfg
2) Launch Audacity
3) Expand Device Toolbar as far rightwards as possible
4) Note that the Device boxes stop expanding after abit leaving blank space in the right of the toolbar
5) Also note that this then does not allow the Device boxes to show their full content.
6) Expand the Audacity Window to full screen
7)drag the size of the Device Toolbar rightwards as far as possible
8) observe the blank space expandes more and the Device boxes remain the same limited size

On my W10 laptop 5  and 8 above mean that I cannot differentiate, by looking at the toolbar, between the loopback and non-loopback inputs on on onboard soundcard - insted to be sure I have to set the devices use Devices Preferences.

Comment 2 James Crook 2018-04-08 15:21:26 UTC

DEVEL - FIX MADE
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/b792094b53767cb3981209b66046aabbdb78d372

"The worst symptoms of this are fully fixed.
1: The device info now uses all the space in the toolbar, no matter how the toolbar is resized.
2: The undocked toolbar can now be moved around repeatedly without changing size at all.

There is a small residual - a toolbar size change of a few pixels on docking.  The contents though still fit nicely.  The 'incredible' part of this bug is gone.  I'd like us to close this bug as the residual of a few pixels change in the toolbar size on repeated docking and undocking scarcely matters."

Also the separate issue of not showing the full contents, as noted by Peter in comment #1 is also fixed.

Comment 3 Peter Sampson 2018-04-09 07:21:34 UTC

(In reply to James Crook from comment #2)
Testing on W10 with audacity-2.3.0-alpha-8-8de9c53e9e66267a8b985f9d765dad417215db0f

The device toolbar no longer shrinks.

And I confirm that I can now extend the toolbar to see the "loopback"

Comment 4 Peter Sampson 2018-04-09 07:55:29 UTC

(In reply to James Crook from comment #2)
Testing on macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra (latest) - with  audacity-macos-nightly-2.3.0-8de9c53.dmg - 28.45 MB | version: 2.3.0--09Apr18 

We no longer have a shrinking toolbar on Mac either