Bugzilla – Bug 1864
Spectrogram settings dialog hides the checkbox for "Enable Spectral Selection"
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:45:16 UTC
This is a regression on 2.2.1 in which the dialog window was tall enough to show all parameters without vertical scrolling. In 2.2.2 on Win and Mac the dialog complete hides the important setting for "Enable Spectral Selection" (unless and until the user realizes they need to scroll vertically) In 2.3.0 latest alphas a) on Mac the "Enable Spectral Selection" is completely hidden until scrolled b) on Win the "Enable Spectral Selection" is half hidden /half exposed. Since the setting for "Enable Spectral Selection" is one of the important key parameters I suggest that a) we should increase the dialog height so all parameters are visible without scrolling - or b)move the checkbox for "Enable Spectral Selection" further up in the dialog I would favor the former
(In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #0) If I recall correctly, the Preference dialog in 2.2.1 always opened the same size, whereas the user may now resize it according to how much screen space is available. We can't guarantee that all preferences on all screens will be visible, because the user may have a small screen, or may have resized the preference window. What we can, and do guarantee, is that all preferences can be reached by either expanding the window or scrolling. I would say this is "not a bug", because it is dependent on the user's display geometry, which is beyond our control.
I'd quite like to do something about this, and close this bug too. I suggest we take discussion of details to quality list and treat it like an enhancement request that might need a little discussion. If I'm making the changes my proposal is: 1. Put Gain (dB) and Range (dB) on the same row. 2. Move 'Use Preference' to the dialog frame, beside preview. I'd also like to 3. Rename 'Frequency Gain' to 'High Boost' 4. Change Minimum and Maximum frequency to Min Frequency (Hz) Max Frequency (Hz) and put them on the same row. Could we possibly have spectral selection enabled by default?
(In reply to James Crook from comment #2) >Could we possibly have spectral selection enabled by default? I'd buy that ...
DEVEL - FIX MADE https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/d1c2ff82f022b4d8e98d448fb8ec89a1cdf6cfb4
I also enabled spectral selection by default. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/ca118dd5bacdd625d0c9afcc3c99d5291f7601ff
(In reply to James Crook from comment #4) testing on audacity-2.3.0-alpha-11-8e71ebca8712c3833cbc5d98baef72ad190f3183 and on macOS 10.13.4 audacity-macos-nightly-2.3.0-09063d6.dmg - 28.47 MB | version: 2.3.0--12Apr18 On both platforms the dialog has been reorganized - looks compacter - looks better - and the checkbox for "Enable Spectral Selection" appears visible. (In reply to James Crook from comment #5) On both platforms I confirm that Spectral Selection is "on" by default
