Bug 776 – Track Dropdown Menu does not open with SHIFT + M shortcut.

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Audacity 3.0.3 development began 19th April 2021

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Bug 776 - Track Dropdown Menu does not open with SHIFT + M shortcut.


Summary:	Track Dropdown Menu does not open with SHIFT + M shortcut.

Status:	RESOLVED QUICKFIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User Interface
Version:	2.0.7
Hardware:	PC Windows and Linux

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

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Keywords:	wx3

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Reported:	2014-10-24 15:24 UTC by Gale Andrews
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Steps To Reproduce:	Create an audio track and use SHIFT + M to open the track's dropdown menu. All that happens is that there is a flash of the outline of the menu.
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

Flags:	stevethefiddle: Accessibility+ gale: Regression+

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Description Gale Andrews 2014-10-24 15:24:32 UTC

Comment 1 Gale Andrews 2014-11-11 15:08:54 UTC

wx3 will not be used for 2.1.0 so demoted to P4.

Comment 2 Steve Daulton 2015-08-04 09:18:18 UTC

(In reply to Gale Andrews from comment #1)
(Tested on Linux)

This issue applies to all types of track, not just audio tracks.

The dropdown menu does not open with the Menu key either, which makes these menus inaccessible to blind users, so added "Accessibility" flag.

I'm not seeing the "flash of the outline of the menu".

After working with an Audacity project for a while, the menu key functionality may temporarily return but the Ctrl+M functionality does not.

As wx3 will be used for 2.1.2 release the priority of this bug needs to be elevated to at least P3 (probably P2 if cross platform).

Comment 3 Gale Andrews 2015-08-05 03:09:59 UTC

(In reply to Steve Daulton from comment #2)
I'll review the older wx3 bugs for ones that were demoted when we decided to stay with wx2.8.12 for 2.1.1. 

I can't reproduce this bug at all as at "4cd7757" on Windows 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 (I tried GNOME Flashback and also Unity with and without the menuproxy). Even the Menu key works. In fact the 31Jul15 Windows Nightly built with wx3.0.2 doesn't show the bug either.  

So it must be a problem confined to debug builds (in which case P4 is appropriate) or to release builds on Debian (in which case P3, even if the bug still exists on Mac which is unknown). Please advise.

Comment 4 Steve Daulton 2015-08-05 07:33:09 UTC

(In reply to Gale Andrews from comment #3)
Same problem with release build of 6d18e3681a747246eca40c690a6eeb22512294ce
(Debian stable)

I'm generally seeing a lot of problems with modifier keys not working, but intermittently they start working. 

The Menu key consistently does not work with the track dropdown menu, but does work with labels.

Comment 5 Steve Daulton 2015-08-05 09:42:32 UTC

(In reply to Steve Daulton from comment #4)
With 617e0713dff883b482751d0846c63dd9b437d474 on Debian stable, release build:
The Menu button and Shift+M shortcut may work correctly when a stereo file, more than a couple of minutes long has been imported.

They still don't work in other cases (such as generating 30 seconds of audio into a new project).

Comment 6 Leland Lucius 2015-08-26 14:13:41 UTC

This should be working after:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/b2b23f12501680a953b83fa0da0da9ffa1b67489

Comment 7 Steve Daulton 2015-08-27 08:06:43 UTC

(In reply to Leland Lucius from comment #6)
Works for me now.
Marked "Fix-Made".

Comment 8 Peter Sampson 2015-09-15 13:34:25 UTC

Tests ok on W7-HP 64-bit audacity-win-r5f985a2-2.1.2-alpha-09-sep-15

Comment 9 Gale Andrews 2015-10-24 05:31:20 UTC

OK on El Capitan.