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* Basic beginnings of what will become a tip-of-the-day dialog

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+<tips caption="Tip of the Day">
+<tip>
+<text>
+Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!
+
+Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple
+things very easily.  Try importing an audio file and using the Pane
+menu to add some different views of it.
+
+Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other
+documentation!
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into "panes" and
+"layers".  To begin with, you have one pane.  Import an audio
+file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked
+from "front" to "back" on the same timeline.  A layer can contain a
+view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+There's a "layer property box" to the right of each pane, with one
+tab for each of the layers on that pane.  Click on a layer's tab to
+bring that layer to the front.  You can then adjust its colour and
+other display properties in the property box.
+
+The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few
+adjustable properties of its own.
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current",
+marked with a black bar at the left side.  Just click on another pane
+to make it current.  Most editing operations affect the layer that's
+at the front of the current pane.
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking
+the Global Zoom control for one of them.  By default, all panes will
+zoom and scroll together.
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup
+control in the bottom-right of the window.
+</text>
+</tip>
+<tip>
+<text>
+The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from
+or process your audio.  The available outputs of any Vamp
+feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have
+will show up here.
+</text>
+</tip>
+
+</tips>
+
+