Specific Zoom Drag Issue

Hello
This is a spin off from this thread:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/X3d-Zoom-Still-As-Messed-Up-As-In-X3c-m2954161.aspx#2955239
 
I though I'd create another thread to get down to the bottom of a specific issue.
It seems to be reproducable in older projects, may created from Sonar X2 or earlier. Then again others might be able to reproduce in new projects.
I cannot reproduce it every time, it appears intermittent. BTW I am absolutely dragging this right every time.

STEPS:

Open a project with multiple tracks
Auto track zoom = OFF
hold down Z
Drag across two tracks
ACTUAL
Does not zoom into two tracks. Shows multiple tracks
Press ALT-Z
Drag across two tracks

ACTUAL

As Expected both tracks display properly zoomed (other tracks not displayed).
(You have to do it twice???).

NOTE

This might not work first time, try some other tracks.... Can be difficult to reproduce but once you find tracks that behave like this the steps are consistent.
 
Can anybody confirm? I suspect some will be able to, some won't. So we need lots of testers.... thanks...

Thanks Dave....!
 
Any more takers?

Indeed, I've tested this particular issue on multiple projects so far, gotta be a smoking gun somewhere....

Hmmmmm... Thanks :)

I'm wondering how it is project dependent...
 
With projects started in X3b or c I can get it to work by removing various elements... which elements are an issue that I can't seem to narrow down...
 
I can always make it work if I remove the "extra" lanes on the track, but it will also work on the track with multiple lanes (sometimes) after removing all vsti's... It's getting more confusing to me as I research it more...
 
Keni
 

BTW...
 
weird that I see in this project it zooms two tracks above it as well and all to the limited size...?
 
 
 

CakeAlexS
Keni Could you look at my specific steps please in #1, can you reproduce?

Thanks

No...
 
I cannot reproduce it as my projects are not zooming correctly no matter how many times I repeat or repeat and undo the action...
 
If I start with a new/clean project and create 4 tracks with audio and do the process, they zoom correctly the first time....
 
I'll bet there are more elements involved that aren't in your report... Just as I'm suspecting with mine...
 
Keni
 

OK guys, I've been playing around and think I've found something. Give this a go:
 
1. Create a new project.
 
2. Make 3 folders.
 
3. Record a handful of tracks (audio or MIDI). Move these tracks into the folders so you have at least 1 or more track in each folder, and have 3 tracks alone outside of the folders.
 
4. Move the non-foldered tracks to the top of the track view so you have the 3 tracks, then 3 folders with tracks inside them underneath. Make sure each folder is CLOSED.
 
5. Z-Drag over the top of any of the non-foldered tracks at the top. It'll work correctly no matter what you do - be it single tracks or multiple tracks.
 
6. Now move the non-foldered tracks to the bottom of the track view so the folders are first. Z-Drag on any or all of those tracks and... zoom is screwy. Sometimes you'll get no zoom, sometimes if you scroll up you'll find the first one is maximised but the others aren't.
 
7. Open the first folder, Z-Drag across parts of it. It'll work correctly. Close the first folder.
 
8. Open the second folder. Z-Drag across parts of it. Same zoom issues as the non-foldered tracks when they were moved to the bottom. This will also happen with the third folder too.
 
9. Now open all of the folders. Z-Drag works correctly on the entire project.
 
From what I've been able to work out, zoom works correctly for every track until it encounters a closed folder and then every track after that does not zoom correctly.
 
Hopefully this isn't just a screwy project of mine and can be reproduced so it can be fixed. :)
 
 

I can reproduce.
 
Tim these are extremely good steps to reproduce thankyou, you must have worked hard on this (I know it's quite time consuming to get it right).
 
Are you able to throw in your steps here, point Cakewalk to this thread, and give us an issue number?
http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/problemreport.aspx
 
Brilliant!
 

Hey guys, great to see I'm not the only one!
 
It's a bit of a crazy time here now so I'm not sure I'll be able to do a report for a while, so if someone else could file one using my recipe, that'd be great.
 
One thing that I think someone should test before that is trying to zoom on tracks underneath a track that has take lanes enabled. So create 3 tracks, on the first one record a couple of extra lanes on there and explode the lane view so you can see all of them. It's possible this may act like the folder scenario where every track before the one with lanes will work fine with Z-Drag but every track after will be weird.
 
I haven't had time to sit in front of my work machine and try that out yet, so I could be way off mark but it's worth giving it a go before filing a bug report for the folders.
 
This is great stuff - good work, everyone! I'll try to check back on this thread when I have a few spare moments and see how it's all going. 

posted on problem reporter

With X3E Issue persists, with slightly different behaviour.
CWBRN-22834 still "under investigation" with Cakewalk. I would update the issue but it won't let me.
 
STEPS:

Open a project with multiple tracks
Auto track zoom = OFF
hold down Z
Drag across two tracks
 
EXPECTED
 
Zooms into two tracks

ACTUAL
 
Zooms into  one track
 
(behaviour now consistent).