[RWP] Effects Presets

[Jim Snowbarger]

Indigo, does that apply to alt+NumPad DownArrow as well?  Or, are the numPad 
and extended arrow keys identical.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Effects Presets


> If we're talking about the same combo box, where the effects presets are 
> supposed to show up after loading an effect, and instead No Presets is 
> shown, when I press alt+down arrow in W-E I'm getting the selected track's 
> volumes, expressed as 0.00bb, etcetera, and all I'm doing is lowering the 
> track's volume.
> Pressing alt+left/right arrows while in that same combo box moves the pan 
> for the selected track.
> Indigo L
>
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> On 4/8/2012 11:11 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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