Project Window

Gale: Not ready for Proofreading.
I'm still not convinced by this page at least as far as the top section is concerned. In principle the idea of showing the window is good, because it shows you where everything fits, but it is very similar to the Impatient page.
It goes into a lot of detail about what's in the image but the image isn't annotated so you have nothing to refer to. How do you know which one is the Device Toolbar(without clicking Toolbars and getting booted out the page)? And the image itself doesn't show any of the tracks which kind of confuses me because I have no idea how to add them.
James: How about we have a second copy of the clickable impatient image here instead of the actual image? If we mind about the duplication we could make it a template...
-- Ed 29 November 2009 as it stands now I do not like it either. Without the "desktop" image showing the undocked toolbars the subsequent information about tracks is not tied in. I still think that the basic project window should come at the top right after the green "intro" box and the first two sentences introducing the image; next should come the "Contains..." section; following that should be the "desktop" image and the subsequent tracks discussion.
-- Ed 8 December 2009 as it stands now we have no image of a project window. If that is going to stand, we should change the name of the page to get rid of the word "Window". We also now have a reference to "the picture above" when in fact it is not a picture but a table and is not representative of what the user sees as a Project Window.

The Project Window is Audacity's interface between the user and the sound. It contains the visual representation of the sound and the tools that you will use to work with the sound. Each Project Window shows one Audacity Project. On Windows there is an absolute maximum limit of about 34 Project Windows, on Mac and Linux this limit is about 90.

Project Window Contents

• The Menu Bar (except on Mac where the menu bar is separate from the project window)
• The Toolbars
• The Timeline
• The Tracks
  

The first time you start Audacity the Project Window will open in its default size and location. All toolbars are visible and docked. Here is a view of the Project Window showing the menu bar, toolbars, timeline and an empty track panel - no audio has been yet.

Peter 17Nov10: note carefully that the use of "track panel" above is an instance of referencing the "TrackPanel" C++ class - and is not the "Track Control Panel"

In the picture above all toolbars are turned on and docked in their default locations.

Above, some of the toolbars are detached from the project window--floating on the desktop; this leaves more room for tracks to be displayed.