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[fonzeroo]

To me WavePad 3.05 is a great program, for which I easily paid for, it's it's money's worth!

 

But...

 

I would like to communicate with the builders / sales department / whoever to be able to tell them what I think is great and what might be improved. Any means of communication is only possible (is it?) by paying for it first (am I right?).

 

I really don't feel I should pay for asking a question about things that will or not will be developped. I would consider paying for new features, not for helping the application improve. I even feel I should recieve money for that!

 

Does anyone know of a way to communicate effectively about possible new features without having to pay for asking.

 

(By the way, I paid for one question, never asked one, and now my time is up. No chance, " buy yourself a new ticket ".)

 

My first improvement suggestion would be:

 

I don't believe it is possible to lock the crosshair in the middle of the screen, or to " page up " or something like that without repositioning the cursor. What I mean is: I would like to be able to move the screenview separately from the cursor. While editing on the fly (I edit speech that I read for myself as a way of studying) the cursor always ends up at the right side of the screen, so I cannot look ahead. This does not work efficiently and costs me a lot of time.

 

So 2 questions:

 

1 How to communicate about possible improvements

 

and off topic:

 

2 Is there a way to scroll without screwing up the position where you are editing. (Scroll lock? Page up / page down?)

[musikone]

To me WavePad 3.05 is a great program, for which I easily paid for, it's it's money's worth!

 

But...

 

I would like to communicate with the builders / sales department / whoever to be able to tell them what I think is great and what might be improved. Any means of communication is only possible (is it?) by paying for it first (am I right?).

 

I really don't feel I should pay for asking a question about things that will or not will be developped. I would consider paying for new features, not for helping the application improve. I even feel I should recieve money for that!

 

Does anyone know of a way to communicate effectively about possible new features without having to pay for asking.

 

(By the way, I paid for one question, never asked one, and now my time is up. No chance, " buy yourself a new ticket ".)

 

My first improvement suggestion would be:

 

I don't believe it is possible to lock the crosshair in the middle of the screen, or to " page up " or something like that without repositioning the cursor. What I mean is: I would like to be able to move the screenview separately from the cursor. While editing on the fly (I edit speech that I read for myself as a way of studying) the cursor always ends up at the right side of the screen, so I cannot look ahead. This does not work efficiently and costs me a lot of time.

 

So 2 questions:

 

1 How to communicate about possible improvements

 

and off topic:

 

2 Is there a way to scroll without screwing up the position where you are editing. (Scroll lock? Page up / page down?)

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Perhaps I am missing something, but why not just place a bookmark at the place that you are editing, then scroll to wherever, and simply return to the bookmark to resume where you left off? This is what I do occasionally when I am faced with the same problem. It is very easy to place a bookmark (using keyboard Ctrl+B followed by return), and to get back to this point by clicking on the "bookmark" icon, etc. Try it; it is really very simple.

 

 

Musikone

[fonzeroo]

The bookmark function is too many clicks and does not tackle my issue. While playing the wav file, the crosshair / cursor always ends up at the right side of the screen eventually, unless you reposition it. Repositioning it uses up time. I only want to reposition the view, not the actual place of the cursor. I just want to be able to look and think ahead to what you cannot see yet, because you are waiting for it to appear on the screen. It is not possible to scroll while playing, without repositioning the cusor. Is it?

 

Situation one: you start playing back a file, the cursor is at the left of the screen. You can see silence, peaks everything that is visible on the screen and can anticipate your next moves / edits.

 

Situation two: after the cursor has reached the right side of the screen, it stays there while playing the file. There is no time to ancicipate or think ahead. Let's say you already know you want to delete a portion of the file (which often is the case), you have to wait for the portion to slide into the screen before you can delete / cut it away. There's no point in listening to the whole sentence if you already know you're going to delete it. If the crosshair could be repositioned to say the middle of the screen I could delete stuff faster, because it already is on the screen.

 

If the cursor / crosshair is at the far right of the screen the stuff to the far left of the screen is irrelevant to me, since I have already cleaned that up. Maybe you can compare my idea to the principle of disk cache-ing. I remember in some spreadsheet programs (a millenium ago) you could use the scroll lock function to change the way the sheet reacted while using the cursor keys. That's not exactly what I am looking for (or is it?), but it'll help you get an idea. In excell for instance, when I press page down only the view changes, not the selected cell. In WavePad this unfortunately doesn't work similarly.

 

You may ask: how can you know that you are going to delete something that is not on the screen yet? Well, because I recorded speech myself some minutes before I start editing and also know what mistakes that I read and want to cut out. Also, if the first word of the sentence I recorded is misspoken I delete the whole sentence. (While reading I correct the mistake immediately by reading the wrong sentence again, correctly.)

 

It is all about reducing lost time and reducing the amount of necessary mouseclicks. A scroll lock function isn't too much to ask I would say? I think it would save me about a minute time for every 10 minutes I read.

 

By the way, thanks for thinking along!

[kproth]

I think I've run into the same issue. From my perspective, there seems to be no "horizontal scrollbar" for the audio file. The only option is to "scroll" the current playback position, which as you've noted will move the playback position all the way to the right side of the screen. I'd love to be able to scroll the audio file without moving the playback spot.

[Guest nchto]

I would like to communicate with the builders / sales department / whoever to be able to tell them what I think is great and what might be improved. Any means of communication is only possible (is it?) by paying for it first (am I right?).

You can use our software suggestions and feedback page: http://www.nch.com.au/suggestions/index.ht...mp;version=3.05

 

As for support requests, you can use the form provided on the WavePad support page. We answer all support questions. If you do not receive an answer then please check your spam/junk mail filters as it likely ended up in there. If you have paid for support (and use your correct email address) you enter our high priority queue.

[fonzeroo]

@kproth: that's what I mean. One of the great features of WavePad is that you can do things simultaneously. For instance: while listening you can hit the save button. And, while listening (playing) you can start making your selection. And, while listening you can "cut" (ctrl x). Other wav editors don't let you do this. This saves me many clicks and much time. Unfortunately, while playing you cannot scroll (boo hoo! )

[fonzeroo]

Hey everyone, I found myself a sort of workaround:

 

When the cursor (almost) reaches the end of the screen hit CTRL and "-", directly followed by CTRL and "+". Although meant for something else, the side effect of these actions is that the cursor will be set to the center of the screen, while the file just keeps on playing (no sound jumping around...).

 

The "-" changes the view (which you probable don't want to happen) but the "+" makes it change back. After this action the view has changed: the cursor is in the middle of the screen.

 

Brilliant if I may say so!

[Guest NCHDA]

For development suggestions you can post in the suggestions page in the forum, which I see you've already done, and you can also send an email through the suggestions page :

http://www.nch.com.au/suggestions/index.html