[Rwp] OSARA key map

[Scott Chesworth]

The blind guy here who isn't productive enough yet for his liking
agrees, but on a project like this where the developer is working fast
and essentially in spare time, I can also imagine why they'd be
cautious about going down that road. It'd open up a whole other can of
worms something along the line of the keymap debate. From the first go
round, I can tell you that the virtual view thingy was the cause of
quite a lot of back and forth. I also think that in the grand scheme
of things, the more often we can be interacting with and manipulating
the standard GUI the majority uses, the better chance we have of
rolling with the punches as Reaper itself evolves. There are already
some actions in OSARA that give us abilities that sighted users don't
have, such as the one to refocus the nearest event in the MIDI events
list, so it's not like Jamie is saying native or bust if an action is
required as an enabler to put us back on a level playing field.


On 2/25/15, Jim Snowbarger via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> I must admit, I take exception to statements like, such and such is
> completely fake.  So what if it is fake.  Fake, I suppose, means that the
> sighted user doesn't see it.
>  So what?  Big deal.
>
> Or that the blind user interface needs to rely on the vfisual presentation,
> and not contain extra bits.
> Quite honestly, whatever helps me get the job done more quickly and easily
> is worth doing, fake or not, regardless of whether the sighties have that
> available or not.,
> I do understand how people want to talk in common terms with the sighted
> user, and I do understand the use case for that.
> But, the fact is, we are at a considerable disadvantage.  And, ruling
> anything, absolutely anything out for asthetic reasons is short sighted.
> We
> should use whatever tricks are available, so long as they provide
> advantage.
> If the sightlings don't have it, too bad.  They got gobs of other things.
> They have so many advantages over us its mind boggling.  I'm not willing to
> throw anything over board, just because they don't have it, as long as it
> is
> the best alternative for us.
> I would far rather have a quick way of getting at some piece of information
> behind the scenes, if I can have that communicated to me in less time, or
> with less effort relative to using their standard techniques.
> Let us not let architectural asthetics, or artistic sensibilities inhibit
> the best solution for us.
> Productivity is the key.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of James Teh via
> RWP
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 4:40 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] OSARA key map
>
> On 25/02/2015 8:23 AM, Jim Noseworthy via RWP wrote:
>> Using the tab and shift-tab keys in ReaAccess, with an empty track, I
>> can tab to the mute, arm, solo, pan, volume, ETC.
> That's a ReaAccess specific feature. OSARA doesn't have an equivalent yet.
> I'm not convinced it should, as it's completely fake, but we'll see.
>
> Jamie
>
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