[RWP] FW: Reapers plug window always on top?

[Steve Spamer]

Hi Indi, well it's hard to get if your experience is the same, but needless
to say I've found this to be the case with every plug I've tried.  It maybe
just the option of in dedicated process per plugin, I don't know.  So do you
have this option selected?  If it is, I get the window on top no matter if
the plug is bridged or not, but I think I would have to do some more testing
with matching plugs/DAW, meaning 32 bit/32 bit and 64 bit/64 bit, as I'm
wondering if there's some suttle difference going on, cheers Steve.

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-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
Sent: 18 April 2013 19:00
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] FW: Reapers plug window always on top?

Well, in Reaper 32 bit; with Wineyes, Jaws, and NVDA; I've always 
assumed we have 2 views; the track view with the tracks, of course, and 
the effects routing view; where I load new effects, find the effects 
parameters at the tab key and edit boxes at the arrow keys; plus I get 
the native interface of the VST plug in effects routing view.
When my wife looks at the monitor while I'm trying to find buttons and 
such on a plugs interface; she clicks on the same coordinates with her 
physical mouse as I do with Wineyes numberPad mouse.
I can't really do much locating of graphical buttons with NVDA, so rely 
on Wineyes for that.
I believe I could probably find graphical buttons with Jaws also; since 
its PC cursor and jaws cursor at the numPad are very similar to what 
Wineyes sees there.
I just haven't had enough experience with it to make it quick for me.
This is all true with ReaAccess loaded,of course.
When my sighted son runs Reaper, without ReaAccess, he sees only a 
single vieww, with tracks and the plugin's interface on the same screen, 
and has no idea what I'm talking about when I refer to track view or 
effects routing view.
Maybe this is what you are referring to when you say that a plug's 
screen is always on top?
ReaAccess is splitting the views into track and effects view for me.
In 64 bit Reaper, with NVDA; I get those same track and effects views.
No version of Window-Eyes that I've tried has run any version of 64 bit 
Reaper so far, so can't speak about that.
Indi


On 4/18/2013 6:43 AM, Steve Spamer wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Spamer [mailto:steve at crustysocks.com]
> Sent: 17 April 2013 12:15
> To: 'Reapers Without Peepers'; 'midimag at midimag.org'
> Subject: Reapers plug window always on top?
>
> Hi, sorry for the cross posting. For all users of Reaper, does anyone
> know...or even aware, that whenever a plug is open when using the "in
> dedicated process per plugin" option in the compatibility preferences,
that
> window actually stays on top of every other window, no matter what?  This
is
> a necessary step to take for any accessibility solution, as the
screenreader
> needs to be able to access the window, without it the window seems to
float
> in the Reaper UI.
>
> Now I'm trying to find out if there's any other configuration that can be
> done to stop this window taking over everything.  It seems odd, as if a
> sighted user had it set up this way, they couldn't use anything else
without
> shutting that window down and reopening it all of the time, they wouldn't
be
> able to see any other window.  So, anyone any ideas?  This is interfereing
> with Jaws and it's not really efficient to open and reopen all of the
time,
> but perhaps it's going to be a necessary evil of using plugs with Reaper.
> I'm not that up on Reaper and could very easily be way off here, so if
> there's more experienced users out there, please give me your input.  BTW,
I
> posted on the Cockos forum, but not heard anything, cheers Steve.
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