A question about Track and Buss Icons...

Hi Peeps,
 
This has been bugging me for some time now, even back in X2.
 
If I assign icons to Tracks or Busses, each time I open a project the quality of the image gets worse and worse:-
 

 
Any ideas why this is happening?
 
(PC specs in my signature)
 
cheers
 
andy

rebel007
but one would have to assume it has something to do with a graphics setting or driver

Indeed...
 
But my graphics card is no slouch and the driver is always kept up to date, so I'd be gutted if it was something to do with that...

Hi Jonesey 
 
It's the same for both Track and Console view, and it gets worse each time I open a project, to the point where the icons appear as above.
 
 

Does the same thing to mine, more often I notice after crashes, but happens in my templets as well.

joyof60
Always thought it was just something I would have to just live with...

Well, going off the response to this topic so far, it appears that we have to do just that...

FreeFlyBertl
Maybe something has been improved here as there was work done in track header area if I recall the fixes from the eZines correctly ...

Good point... I'll re-select my track/buss icons and see if they change over time

Bristol_Jonesey
A very long shot - delete the contents of your picture cache.
 
Sonar will rebuild new ones when you load up your projects

Good point - I keep forgetting about that picture cache ...

yeah this happens to me all the time

Bristol_Jonesey
Yes it is, but clearing it has been known to cure more than a few little graphical issues

Okay , I'll give it a go.

Well... I cleared my picture cache and it made no difference whatsoever I'm afraid.
 
I thought the same as you Michael, that it pointed to a file location, but one thing I just noticed, when I started a new project using my "normal" template, which I had previously saved with some busses and those icons, that the icons are somewhat degraded right at the start. So those pictures may be part of the project perhaps...
 
I just tried an experiment... in prefs, I set the Track Icons location to a folder that does not contain any of those icon files, and the buss icons show up okay, so that confirms that the path location does not matter once the icon is loaded.
 
I then tried something else... I renamed the Track Icons folder, so that Sonar would not find it, and the icons still appear.
 
That surely suggests that the track and buss icons are somehow embedded into each project.
 
Having since cleared my picture cache, the only files that are in there at the moment are the ones associated with audio that I have only just recorded. There are five .WOV and five .TR2 files in there.
 
 
 
Hopefully someone from Cakewalk could shed some light on this...

Don't know why this happens either perhaps Graphic card question or something else. I have had this error a couple of times as well. Both in Platinum and X3.

reginaldStjohn
Has anyone entered a bug report for this?

I haven't, yet... I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me first. I'll stick a report in tomorrow.
 

mettelus
And the reasoning is probably if you share a project, it will look the same on another's machine regardless of their icon paths (also makes sense).

I agree... That does make a lot of sense, and your experiments back up mine

I have some old files where the icons are basically just noise. They were opened and saved maybe 100 times during our album recording so they're damaged beyond repair. :)

Excellent Ben!
 
Thanks for taking the time to post