Bugzilla – Bug 1965
Enh: Track name overlay display for all track types
Last modified: 2019-04-08 08:02:08 UTC
The clue is in the title of the preference "Show audio track name as overlay" but there is no real reason why we should not have overlaid names for all track types. I came across this testing Chris Cannam's Vamp plug-ins on Windows. Chris's Vamp tools nicely create a separate label track for each analysis they perform. He helpfully names the track to identify the analysis - but several of his tools have a very similar start text - so it's hard to differentiate - and the only way you can see the full name is to try to faux-edit it from the TCP dropdown menu. BTW I would include all tracks including MIDI /Note tracks and Time tracks too - and for simplicity I would just have the one control for all track types - *not* one for each track type.
In an email thread Steve wrote: >Perhaps it should be a per-track option, and the (one) preference setting >just sets whether the default is on or off. Peter replied: >Well that would be even better (an extra item in the TCP dropdown menu?)
Steve wrote by email: >The problem now is that if we have a label at time = 0, the label is completely >obscured by the track name, so the only way to see the label text is to go into >Preferences and turn off showing the track name. I don't think that is >acceptable, so we would need a solution before making names in tracks apply to >all tracks. > >There is a comment in the code saying words to the effect of, "it would be nice >if the background to the name was translucent". >I'm not sure if this is something that James intends to do at some time, >but a translucent background would be less bad in terms of covering stuff up.
Testing on W10 with audacity-2.3.2-alpha-219-9ba023d607cb8a79cdf90c9b0ef9dec9af98e6a9 and on macOS 10.14.4 with James' latest Mac alpha build of 06Apr19 On both platforms the track-name overlay is mow displayed as translucent
Works for me on Linux. Resolved: Fixed.
