[RWP] Effects Presets

[Jim Snowbarger]

What seems to be happening with this crazy comboBox in the effects dialog, is that alt+downArrow is actually opening the list, but jaws is not showing the fact.  It seems like  you go to a condition where two things apear to be highlighted, and jaws is latching on the first one.  Unfortunately, the second one is an item on the list.  So, things are half opening at that stage.
God knows what kind of trick they are playing now, and why.  But, at least there is a work around.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: colin McDonald 
  To: Reapers Without Peepers 
  Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 12:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [RWP] Effects Presets


  like I said, this oddity with the combo boxes in the effects window is new since I upgraded from V3.77 to V4.2x...never a problem getting list boxes and having all items in a combo box show with the earlier version.

  Regards
  Colin
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jim Snowbarger 
    To: Reapers Without Peepers 
    Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:24 PM
    Subject: [RWP] Effects Presets


    I'm poking around into why the presets don't seem to appear in the effects dialog, and have some interesting discoveries.

    For background, make a track with control+t, record some stuff on it, then press the f key, and choose an effect for the track, and press enter.

    Now, you land in the effects dialog.  One of the items in there is a comboBox that says No Preset.  If you arrow down, it still says no presets.  There are actually factory presets in here, but you can't tell it.  If you add a preset of your own, then it now shows up, along with the rest of the factory presets.  But, if you close reaper, or delete the effect, or any number of other things, it reverts back to the condition where the presets don't show up.

    But, there is a way to get them back.  NVDA users can just poke around in the object model, because if you access the object that contains the phrase, no presets, just tab too it, then press insert+NumPadMinus to focus the NVDA object there, , you can then press insert+downArrow to enter that object, then insert+rightArrow to move to a button that says, open.
    The object says it has a default hotkey of alt+down arrow.  But, in jaws anyway, alt+downArrow is not opening the list.  But, doing the default action on that object, the one that says, open, is doing the trick.  Then, all presets show up.

    I'm not sure how you do the default action via an object in NVDA.  but, knowledgeable experts will know.

    for my own part, if I can't figure out why jaws isn't letting alt+down arrow work, I will make an addition to my scripts to force the issue by doing the default action on that object when alt+down arrow is pressed in that context.







----------------------------------------------------------------------------


    _______________________________________________
    RWP mailing list
    RWP at reaaccess.com
    http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com



------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  RWP mailing list
  RWP at reaaccess.com
  http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/rwp/attachments/20120408/f5336419/attachment.html>