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Perhaps I have misunderstood you here, I said before in my previous post “the scan was successful” and AFAICT Podium adds a plugin to the quarantine list automatically..how would I manually edit this file?

If you do a rescan, and the scanning skips plugins found on the quarantine list, the message box appearing at the end of the scan has an “Open Quarantine List” button. You can also open the PluginQuarantine.txt with a file explorer. The file is located in the same folder as the Podium.ini file.

The firewall warning does not seem to appear once the plugin is on the quarantine list.

Makes sense, since I’m guessing it was the quarantined plugin that was the cause for the internet access. I would guess that this plugin is using an OS service to send a crash report to the developer.

You said that “Podium does NOT contain any code that accesses the internet” but even if the plugin is the culprit to a user clearly Podium is trying to access the internet based on the information in that screengrab I posted.

Podium.exe is calling functions in the plugin dll. The dll can do anything it wants, including accessing the internet, but to the OS it will appear as if the Podium “application” is the sinner. Likewise if the plugin crashes or mistakingly overwrites memory used by Podium, it will appear as if Podium is crashing. Podium cannot prevent this. There are alternative methods of isolating plugins in separate processes to improve security, but this will affect performance.

i don’t understand how your suggestion works. i look at the bar/beat in the transport toolbar but it does not indicate verse. if i look at the tempo indicator i do not see verse 1 or 2, etc.

What I described was a suggestion of how it could be implemented. Currently it is only the timesig/tempo that is shown in the transport toolbar. This field could be widened to show timesig/tempo on the bottom line of the field, and marker name on the top line.

i also noticed that if the engine is not running and i move the time line…. the marker name changes at the left time sig/bpm each time the marker passes. this is the way i think the marker should work?

Both the marker name and the timesig/tempo written to the left of the lanes are hints to the events prior to the start of the zoomed time range. This is useful information when you are editing events on the timeline. Your request to see the marker at the play cursor is useful during playback, hence my suggestion that this info could be shown in the transport toolbar.

having the marker change name as the play cursor passes it? it really makes sense.

I don’t agree. The marker name and the time signature/tempo text on the lane below were intended as visual clues to the zoomed time range, like the bar/beat and time labels on the timeline ruler. In the case of the timesig/tempo you have an indicator in the transport toolbar to show what is active at the play cursor. If you want an indication of the active marker at the play cursor, then this could be shown next to the tempo indicator in the transport toolbar.

@rinxai wrote:

Just missing that extra bit of color on the track headers, gotta have that back!

You can have it back. Just set the “track header color opacity” in the tracks region properties.

Any idea why Podium is trying to access the internet during a scan?

Podium does NOT contain any code that accesses the internet. It must be a plugin that attempts the internet access, either deliberately or indirectly as a consequence of the crash. If you add the TAL-U-No-what to the quarantine list, does the OneCare pop up the warning on subsequent scans?

Also is there a chance of changing the undo/redo buttons so that a left-click undoes and redoes a single action (as normal) and a right-click brings up the time menus?

I agree that this approach is better than the dedicated undo/redo menu buttons. The regular undo/redo buttons can now open the edit history menu by pressing Alt+z/y, shift+clicking or right-clicking the buttons. I’ve changed the default toolbar layout back to using the undo/redo buttons instead of the undo/redo menu buttons. Coming in Podium 1.96.