Media item buttons are invisible but functional (FIXED)

[clepsydrae]

For certain tracks using lanes, some items do not display the utility buttons (Mute, Grouped, Locked, etc.)

The following licecap is from a fresh portable install (4.591, Win 8 64bit) + license key + ASIO, and the setting to show the "Unmute" button over the media items is enabled.

Note that the mute button does not appear on the left item (this is true for any other buttons that may be in play as well, but not demonstrated in this licecap) but it is nonetheless there and active.

Perhaps it is related to the presence of empty lanes (see licecap)?

I could not easily reproduce the bug from a new project: recording in a loop for a couple takes, manually adding an empty lane above the current take, etc. But after closing and open such a test project a couple times, the bug appeared. Not sure exactly how that happened, but I provide here a link to the demo project (not the one in the licecap, though I can provide that to, but the same thing...)

Let me know if I can provide more information, or if this bug is already known.

Project file is here.

[Ollie]

Preferences->Appearance->Media->"Hide buttons when take lane height is less than..."

[musicbynumbers]

Originally Posted by Ollie

Preferences->Appearance->Media->"Hide buttons when take lane height is less than..."

Yes but right at the beginning, it still looks like there's a bug right? on the left item even with that setting adjusted.

[clepsydrae]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Yes but right at the beginning, it still looks like there's a bug right? on the left item even with that setting adjusted.

Yes -- see the licecap. I'm aware of the "hide buttons" option and that's not what's at play here...

Thanks!
-c

[clepsydrae]

Originally Posted by clepsydrae

Yes -- see the licecap. I'm aware of the "hide buttons" option and that's not what's at play here...

Thanks!
-c

Meaning, it shouldn't be, anyway, unless reaper is using the hidden (mosty empty) lane heights to display the buttons or not, and even if so it is putting the buttons there, just invisibly (see the beginning of the licecap where the "mute" button works even though it is invisible.)

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by clepsydrae

I could not easily reproduce the bug from a new project: recording in a loop for a couple takes, manually adding an empty lane above the current take, etc. But after closing and open such a test project a couple times, the bug appeared. Not sure exactly how that happened, but I provide here a link to the demo project (not the one in the licecap, though I can provide that to, but the same thing...)

1. I can't reproduce that at all, neither with your project nor by creating one that's more resembling the GIF above. No invisible buttons, no matter how few/many lanes of varying height and how few/many buttons I add. I wish I had at least invisible buttons though, can I have your computer please?

2. It's probably better to drastically reduce the "Hide..." threshold since that should decrease the chance of disappearing buttons a lot, in particular if you use many lanes.

[clepsydrae]

Originally Posted by Ollie

1. I can't reproduce that at all, neither with your project nor by creating one that's more resembling the GIF above. No invisible buttons, no matter how few/many lanes of varying height and how few/many buttons I add. I wish I had at least invisible buttons though, can I have your computer please?

They're more trouble than they're worth. :-)

I just tried it in a 32-bit XP VM -- same thing. Fresh portable install, copy in license key, run it, set audio device to whatever, use action menu to turn on "Show empty take lanes" and go to preferences to show "Unmuted" button in Appearance -> Media -> Media item buttons, and it happens... mute button is invisible but functional on the left item, but normal on the right.

Do you have a windows machine you test on? I think in the past you said you were on a mac, usually?

Anyone else got a sec to check for this?

2. It's probably better to drastically reduce the "Hide..." threshold since that should decrease the chance of disappearing buttons a lot, in particular if you use many lanes.

(Just for the record, that has no effect on this bug.)

Thanks,
-c

[musicbynumbers]

I think this might be a recent change as I've noticed that if an item's end is off screen occasionally the name and buttons can be off screen too instead of being kept on screen. It might be related to this and it's something I don't recall happening before.

[FnA]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

I think this might be a recent change as I've noticed that if an item's end is off screen occasionally the name and buttons can be off screen too instead of being kept on screen. It might be related to this and it's something I don't recall happening before.

Getting that here too. Win 7 Reaper 64.

[Ollie]

Originally Posted by FnA

Getting that here too. Win 7 Reaper 64.

The question is whether or not you guys are having the OP's problem.

Originally Posted by clepsydrae

Do you have a windows machine you test on? I think in the past you said you were on a mac, usually?

Didn't try it on the Mac, just XP and Vista.

[clepsydrae]

Originally Posted by Ollie

Didn't try it on the Mac, just XP and Vista.

Man, I am the master of easily-reproducible-for-me-but-not-Ollie bugs.

musicbynumbers/FnA/anyone -- got a sec to download the example project and see what it looks like for you? Should only take a few secs.

(You have to turn off "Show empty take lanes" in the actions menu and go to preferences to show "Unmuted" button in Appearance -> Media -> Media item buttons. Then just open the project.)

[Ollie]

Edit: It's the empty first take, or that the first take is empty.

I can reproduce that now in your example project, but I can't figure out what's causing it and so I can't recreate it. Something must be happening during creation of the project playing tho. Edit: I suspected source start offset but that's probably not it.

Strangely, the FX buttons I've turned on always stay visible and make it obvious that the buttons left to it are missing:



The take name is also giving it away (it's indented and it stays indented) and the invisible buttons never show no matter how much I increase the item height.

- Do you have Preferences->Loop Reording->"In loop recording, discard incomplete..." checked or unchecked?

[Justin]

Fixing!

[clepsydrae]

Originally Posted by Justin

Fixing!

*trumpet fanfare*

Brilliant, thanks! Let me know if you need anything else.