Bug 463 – Incorrect Timeline numbering

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 463 - Incorrect Timeline numbering


Summary:	Incorrect Timeline numbering

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Application Core
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC All

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

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Reported:	2011-12-23 08:19 UTC by Steve Daulton
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	1) Generate an hour of silence (or anything) 2) Zoom in as far as possible. 3) Scroll to the end of the track The numbers on the timeline all show 1:00:00.000000
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

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

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Description Steve Daulton 2011-12-23 08:19:08 UTC

Numbering on timeline at full zoom level is incorrect on long tracks.
Occurs in all versions since 1.3.8.
Tested on Windows and Linux.

Comment 1 James Crook 2017-08-14 13:24:04 UTC

DEVEL - FIX MADE
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/e98f08a2dec3d5cc088dc55b17bc261e3ded8654

Now, you may justifiably argue there are other issues with the timeline.  However, the duplication of numbers, and displaying '39 mins and 60 seconds' which is the bug whose fix caused the duplicate numbers are now fixed. 

I regard it as sufficiently better that we should resolve it, and look at for example a better algorithm for spacing the timeline labels as a future enhancement.

Tested by the fixer on windows and linux (but that doesn't count towards closing it).

Comment 2 Peter Sampson 2017-08-15 06:18:03 UTC

(In reply to James Crook from comment #1)
Testing on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 db97fea 15Aug

Teested with the one-hour silence as per the steps and the Timeline numbering is ok.

Also tested with importing a four-hour WAV file - numbering of Timeline ok at max zoom at the end, the beginning and the middle.

Comment 3 James Crook 2017-08-15 06:25:14 UTC

RESOLVED FIXED
Per Peter's testing in comment 2.
It's RepeatableAll, and is one of those cases that only needs test on one platform.

Comment 4 Steve Daulton 2017-08-15 14:03:02 UTC

(In reply to James Crook from comment #1)
Mid-air collision (ouch).
Was just posting that it works for me on Linux.