Tobi Changelog

What's new in Tobi 2.6.2.0

• Audio recording: tape-like workflow - new preference called Audio_DisableAfterRecordSelection (off by default) which places the audio cursor at the end of the newly recorded audio instead of selecting it. This option, when combined with Audio_Record_OverwriteFollowingAudio option (which automatically replaces the audio content following the audio cursor), enables a fluid tape like recording. Both preferences can be turned on or off using the Preferences Dialog or the Status Bar. Please note here that the application preference Audio_EnableRecordOverwrite has been renamed to Audio_Record_OverwriteFollowingAudio to better indicate its functionality.
• Audio waveform: mouse wheel scroll zoon - use the CTRL key in combination with mouse wheel scroll to scale he audio waveform rendering. Keyboard users can use Ctrl+the number keys (from 1 to 9) ; Ctrl+0 is equivalent to Ctrl+W (fit to width command). If the focus is in the Audio Editor, users can simply use the number keys without pressing the Ctrl key. These new commands are also available in the main menu. Note that these commands are different from the existing mouse wheel scroll (without pressing the Ctrl key), which controls the scrolling of the waveform area in the Audio Editor, or the Shift+mouse wheel scroll that can be used to pan quicker a large waveform segment.
• Auto save: new option (EnableAutoSaveProject) to automatically save the project file (with .xuk extension) each time the project is modified. Auto save usually has a disadvantage that even the wrong operations triggered by users are also saved, but Tobi provides undo-redo functionality, which can be used to roll-back to the previous state. Note that the existing back-up configuration item has now been renamed to EnableAutoBackupProject to better denote its role, i.e. creating backups at regular intervals, including dated copies of the XUK project file. These dated files can be used to mitigate project corruption issues and authoring mistakes.
• Auto playback loop: new option (Audio_DisableAutoJumpToBegin_AtEndOfPlayback) which is turned off by default, in order to disable automatic playback / cursor positioning at the beginning of audio, once playback reaches the end of the waveform.
• User interface: fixed UI redraw freeze which was happening in Tobi .NET4 when coming out of screen saver, user log out, user account control, CTRL ALT DEL (and back). This was an issue caused by a bug in Microsoft's WPF UI library, so Tobi stopped using a particular performance-enhancing layout feature in order to work around the bug. This was however a minor optimization in the audio waveform renderer (GPU bitmap texture caching), so its removal does not impact the overall performance significantly.
• UI and document renderer: fixed user interface zoom commands and document font size control - the CTRL plus/minus keyboard shortcuts allocated by default to the user interface magnification commands were not correctly interacting with the font size controls in the document renderer, when keyboard focus was placed on the document.
• Audio keyboard shortcut: The CTRL 0-9 shortcuts are reserved for waveform zooming, so the command to reset the playback rate is now SHIFT CTRL DOWN