Split lines policy when inserting WAS: P3: Labels cannot be repeated ... and more!

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Gale (Audacity Team)

Split lines policy when inserting WAS: P3: Labels cannot be repeated ... and more!

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Al Dimond wrote:

> I'm not sure that repeat always does the right thing with respect to
> split lines (really, with respect to adding extra clips -- my
> understanding is that there's not really such a thing as a "split
> line", it's just a boundary between clips that are right next to
> eachother -- so it is impossible and meaningless to have a split line
> at the boundary between a clip and whitespace).  Is the policy that
> every new repeated block should be its own clip?  If that's the case,
> then repeat isn't doing it right in some cases... my opinion is that
> inserting into the middle of a clip should always add split lines
> (that is, it should insert as its own clip).  If we do that, it's
> really easy for repeat to make every new repeated block its own
> clip... if we don't, then we'd have to re-implement
> WaveTrack::HandleGroupPaste() inside of EffectRepeat::Process().  But
> that has nothing to do with these cases.

Currently if you paste a clip into whitespace and repeat it, the repeats
are their own clip; if you paste that clip into an existing clip, no
separate clip will be created; and if you repeat that clip, the repeats
will not be separate clips. I think on balance that's a reasonable
compromise, while there is no preference for this, but I think there
should be one. The "split lines" in the case where you say, generate or
import a track and repeat it are not infrequently reported as bugs, and
I definitely find them a nuisance for my purposes.      
 


Gale


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