[RWP] Creating functions?

[Scott Chesworth]

You can do a similar doubleclick move on Mac yeah. In any case,
dragging tends to work in that world, so Orio was following the
original sighty instructions and having success I think.

Scott

On 9/13/13, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> It is very simple, but whether you can do the double click move on the
> mac's screenreader I don't know.
> Here are the steps to chain any number of actions together.
> First, let us all get the term right, it's actions, not functions, okay?
> 1. to chain actions open the actions list with F4.
> 2. Click enter on New.
> 3. You're in the edit field to name your new custom action, so type in a
> name.
> 4. Tab down to the word List, which is the main actions list.
> Before you clicked on New; you could have narrowed which actions are
> displayed in this List by typing in search terms, or selecting one of
> the sublists; but for this step-by-step, it doesn't matter.
> 5. Arrow to one of the actions; doesn't matter which one for this exercise.
> 6. However you need to do it for your particular screenreader, route the
> focus over to your numberPad and do whatever it takes to double-click;
> at your number pad; on  the action you selected in the previous step.
> With NVDA I use the NVDA key plus the numberPad enter key to achieve the
> double-click
> 7. go back to the arrow keys and arrow to another action.
> 8. repeat your screenreader moves which route focus to your number pad
> and do a double-click on the second action at your numPad.
> 9. Now, if you tab down 1 space, you'll find that List 2; which
> previously said Drag actions here; now contains the 2 actions you just
> selected by double-clicking on them at your number pad.
> 10. You can continue to chain as many actions as you like.
> While still in the custom actions dialog; you can also place checkmarks
> on a couple of options, like display the custom action in the Reaper
> standard actions list.
> When you've finished your chaining and checkmarking options, tab down to
> OK and press enter.
> 11. To provide a single shortcut or control surface control to trigger
> the entire chain of actions, tab to Add; and press enter.
> You'll be prompted to either type in a qwerty shortcut, or to wiggle a
> control on your control surface.
> 12. After providing a shortcut, tab to where you can run the custom
> action you just created, or to click enter on Close, to exit from the
> actions dialog and return to track view.
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> On 9/12/2013 1:21 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote:
>> On the mac, i had to click and drag. Think Indie said it was similar
>> for windows screen readers.
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>> On 9/12/13, Goldfinga Productions <goldfingas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> now to move them, do I just hit enter on the action I want to add to the
>>> list?
>>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 9:32 PM, TheOreoMonster <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It sounds like what you are looking to do is create a custom action.
>>>> You
>>>> can say create new actions as in add functionality that isn't there
>>>> yet,
>>>> sans having doe programming chops perhaps. What you can however do is
>>>> chain to gather actions that are already available to you.  for example
>>>> I
>>>> have one that will set the end point and automatically select all items
>>>> on
>>>> selected track in time selection with just one keystroke.  Sorry i am
>>>> on
>>>> the mac so can't give you reaaccess keyboard shortcuts and windows
>>>> screen
>>>> reader specific directions, but the basic just is this. Bring up the
>>>> actions list, navigate to where it says custom action and click the new
>>>> button. You will then get an empty box to the right of a box with all
>>>> your
>>>> available actions in it. An edit field to name the action and an edit
>>>> field to search through the available actions so u don't have to scroll
>>>> through that massive list.  Find the actions u want and move them into
>>>> the
>>>> empty box in the order in which you want the actions performed. once
>>>> done,
>>>> navigate to where you can assign a keyboard shortcut and choose whether
>>>> it
>>>> shows up in the regular actions list or not. Search the group for
>>>> custom
>>>> actions as i did a fairly long and more in-depth write up on this a
>>>> couple
>>>> months ago.
>>>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Goldfinga Productions
>>>> <goldfingas at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As the subject says, how do I go about creating functions to add to
>>>>> the
>>>>> functions list? is there a way to also automate functions together to
>>>>> make a type of batch process? I am tryinng to cut down on the
>>>>> keystrokes.
>>>>> I think Keven Reeves was asking something like this a while back, but
>>>>> I
>>>>> don't remember if anyone came up with anything. lol. I think that was
>>>>> the
>>>>> three that got kind of long. I do remember something like that though.
>>>>> I
>>>>> was just wondering how easy or hard it is to create custom functions?
>>>>> Thanks for any help…
>>>>> 	
>>>>>
>>>>> GF
>>>>>
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>>>>> http://www.twitter.com/goldfingas
>>>>>
>>>>>
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