On Tuesday, November 18, 1997 4:31 PM, Richard Dobson 
[SMTP:rwd@pact.srf.ac.uk] wrote:
>
> Reid Sweatman wrote:
>
> > The new version of Cool Edit, Cool Edit Pro, supports the new 
floating-point format.
>
> Yes, I have tried it (well, the demo version), and it confirms my format
> is OK - yippee. A pity that Cool Pro will not display the sample value
> at the cursor, though - am I alone in finding that a useful, nay 
necessary
> facility?

Ah, but it will.  Just right-click on the status bar at the bottom of the 
screen, and you'll get a pop-up menu of options for things to display in 
the status bar.  One of these displays the data under the cursor.

> BTW: at least in the earlier incarnations of Cool, the WAVE parsing is a 
little
> sketchy - it will accept a file of N channels, and display it as stereo.
> This could ~just possibly~ be useful to look at a Csound 4channel file,
> but if I give Cool a 1024-channel pvoc file it attempts (I presume) to 
create
> that many buffers and crashes spectacularly. It also crashes when it 
tries to write
> a WAV file with a large header (CDP style). Cool95 was OK in this respect 
-
> I was told by Syntrillium that they changed the header reading code to 
cater for
> users of buggy CD-ROM writing software!!!!

I hadn't noticed that, save for one time when I tried to open a quad CSound 
file by mistake .  However, it makes sense, as Cool Edit versions prior 
to Pro only supported stereo.  I'm guessing the programmers were only much 
familiar with the Windows version of WAVE files, which are rarely even 
stereo.  It probably seemed a safe bet to support the only kind anyone 
appeared to be using.  Still, it's good programming practice to trap the 
fall-through cases.  On the whole, though, I'm pretty happy with the guys 
at Syntrillium.  They put most of the rather lengthy list of things I (and 
other people, of course) asked for into Pro.  About the only thing I didn't 
get that I asked for was a full-blown programming language to replace the 
rather limited scripting language.  Frankly, I pretty much asked them for a 
cross between Perl, C, and CSound .  So I can't be *too* surprised they 
didn't follow up on that one .