[QLab] Editing in external programs

[Christopher Ashworth]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Paul Gotch wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:00:33AM +0100, Paul Gotch wrote:
>> I suspect this is due to Audacity unlinking the old file (which  
>> QLab still
>> has a file handle to) and opening a new file with the same name  
>> rather than
>> opening and truncating the original file.
>
> (At risk of following up to myself)
>
> Chris do you consider this expected behaviour and if so would it be  
> useful
> to have a "Reload all media" button somewhere?

Hi Paul, sorry for the delay there.

I can't confirm exactly what Audacity is doing, but it is most likely  
basically what you describe.

Yes, this would be expected behavior since the internal work is done  
with an FSRef, and that is only generated when the target path is set  
on the Sound Cue.  So if the file represented by the FSRef moves, the  
Sound Cue will continue to function until the next time it tries to  
reset things from the original file path.

Mark H noticed this before, and even wrote up a ticket on it:

http://figure53.com/trac/ticket/180

Definitely could use some improvements around this behavior.

-C