[RWP] Chaining Actions

[Indigo]

Okay, I got it!
Good little old NVDA comes through like a champ!
Easy easy!
All you do is open the actions list with F4.
Then click enter on New; and name your action.
I called my chained action MyChainedAction1.
Then I tabbed down to List, which is the main list.
List 2 is the next tab down, where you're supposed to need drag/drop, 
only you can ignore drag/drop, with this method.
In the main list I arrowed to an action; thenmoved the focus over to the 
NVDA numberPad and pressed that magic shortcut: NVDA+numPad enter, which 
provides a double click in this instance.
Then I went back to the main action list which is still at the arrow 
keys and arrowed to another action.
Again I moved the focus to the numberPad, then pressed NVDA+numPad enter.
Now, guess what?
When I tab down one space to List2, where it formerly said drag an 
action here, now that message is gone and there are 2 actions in List 2.
I tab to OK and hit enter.
To assign a single shortcut to both the chained actions, go to Add and 
hit enter.
You will be prompted to type a shortcut, or assign a control on your 
control surface, then click enter on close, and you're finished.

I think if you're in jaws or Wineyes, route focus to your number padby 
your usual method, and double click on each action to be chained by 
whatever method is appropriate .
I think when I did it with Wineyes; I just routed focus to the numPad 
and hit the left click /key.
Please tell us if you're able to do this with jaws or wineyes?
Unfortunately, Wineyes won't run reaper in Windows 7 64, or I'd try it 
myself with wineyes.

Indi







On 9/12/2013 6:32 PM, Indigo wrote:
> I know I did this years ago, but I was in 32 bits XP and running
> Window-Eyes.
> I just tried it a little bit with NVDA in Windows 7 64 bit, and didn't
> get it, but I'll keep on trying.
> Here's a snip on chaining actions from Reaper Unleashed, a great
> tutorial with lots of useful tips, where his sighted approaches often
> apply to our needs.
> Snip:
> 5.3.1Chaining Actions
> In this example, we'll be creating a custom action so that you can use
> the Shift key in conjunction with the mouse wheel to zoom horizontally
> and vertically at the same time. The custom action itself simply chains
> two actions together.
> Tutorial: Creating a Custom Action
> 1.Choose the Actions, Show actions listcommand.
> 2.Click on the New button.
> 3.Type a name, such as Zoom V and H
> 4.Find and add (by double-clicking) the two actions View: Zoom
> horizontally and View: Zoom vertically.
> 5.Click on OK.
> 6.Click on Add... to display the Keyboard MIDI Input window.
> 7.Hold Shiftand scroll the mousewheel just a touch. This will assign the
> action to the mousewheel and close the dialog box.
> 8.Click on Close.
> You will find that you can now hold Shift while scrolling the mousewheel
> up or down to zoom in or out horizontally and vertically at the same time.
> Unsnip.
> Don't be concerned what the actions he chose were, the technique works
> on all actions.
> When I just tried it, I clicked on New, Named my custom action, tabbed
> to the list; hit enter on a selected action and got the error message
> that no action has been chosen.
> Reaper is correct, because there's nothing in the next box you get by
> tabbing down 1 space; which is called List 2.
> List 2 has the message Drag selected action here.
> I know that drag/drop is not required, because I did it, now I need to
> rediscover how.
> I'll go back and try the method from the snip above, which' if you
> notice; says to double click on 2 actions from the list to chain them
> together, then click on OK, ; no mention at all of drag/drop
> I'll try double clicking at NVDA's numberPad on two of the actions in
> the main list.
> When you get the method right, any number of actions just appear in List
> 2 without Drag/drop.
> Indi.
>
>
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