Bug 2265 – Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 2265 - Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening


Summary:	Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.4.0
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P1 RepeatableAll
Assigned To:	Default Assignee for New Bugs

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Reported:	2019-12-27 09:50 UTC by Peter Sampson
Modified:	2020-01-27 12:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

See Also:	2266
Steps To Reproduce:	1) get some audio 2) resize the track height 3) save the project 4) Close Audacity 5) Relaunch Audacity 6) Open the project saved at Step 3 7) Observe the track height has been reverted to default size
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First Git SHA:	3f1fd8ced0fb5fe617ad2dd7808cd1ae2ca2c0f3
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Closed:	2020-01-27 00:00:00

Flags:	petersampsonaudacity: Regression+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Win+ petersampsonaudacity: Test‑OK‑Mac+ stevethefiddle: Test‑OK‑Lin+

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Description Peter Sampson 2019-12-27 09:50:33 UTC

Track heights are reset to default on project re-opening - affects label tracks and Time tracks as well as audio tracks (stereo and mono).

This is a regression on 2.3.2 - hence the P1

In fact it was this way in earlier Audacities 1.0.0 and 1.2.6 and 1.3.0 - it got fixed sometime during the 1.3.x Beta series as it is OK in 1.3.14 and remained OK all the way through to 2.3.2.

I suspect that this is another 2.3.3 re-factoring bug - it occurs in 2.3.3 and the latest 2.4.0 alpha that I have.

Tested on both W10 and macOS 10.15.2 - fails on both - so assume all platforms.

Originally reported by a user on GitHub: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/400

Comment 1 Paul L 2019-12-31 13:18:24 UTC

Bisected to 3f1fd8ced0fb5fe617ad2dd7808cd1ae2ca2c0f3

Comment 2 Paul L 2020-01-14 20:07:44 UTC

Fixed at https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/cbe4a46af27ec332098c05b4e6b677937e97a2a7

Comment 3 Peter Sampson 2020-01-15 05:52:57 UTC

Testing on W10 with latest alpha:  Audacity 2.4.0 alpha windows-2019_f11b2b6

And on latest alpha on macOS 10.15.2

The user's set track heights (larger and smaller) are restored correctly.

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In testing this I note that the user's track settings for Multi-view are not retained - but then neither are thy if the user set a track to Spectrogram view.  On project re-opening the tracks show in the view type set as the default track type in Tracks preferences.

I will open a discussion on the Quality thread to ascertain whether this is a "bug" or a "design feature".

Comment 4 Steve Daulton 2020-01-27 09:30:20 UTC

Tests OK on Linux too, so marking as Quick Fixed.

Comment 5 Peter Sampson 2020-01-27 12:25:20 UTC

(In reply to Steve Daulton from comment #4)
Changed to FIXED

This was a regression that we had in the last releases 2.3.3 - a regression on 2.3.2

QUICKFIXED is for bugs that are introduced and fixed in the same development cycle,