[Rwp] Especially to Jamie: Selecting the Master Track

[James Teh]

On 28/10/2015 6:09 PM, Matej Golian via RWP wrote:
> Specifically, do you still want to make the master track focusable
> with Osara?
I'd like to, yes.

> I ask because now we have an SWS action for it.
Yes; I didn't know about this action. It works quite nicely, but it 
selects the master track without unselecting other tracks, which might 
not be what the user wants in some cases. The code is also ridiculously 
simple, which is nice. :)

> If you
> don't, I think that it would be useful if osara provided feedback when
> selecting the master track with that SWS action.
I could probably get that to speak as well, but because of the reason 
above, I'd prefer to have another way to move to the master track which 
acts more like moving between other tracks first.
> Can you some how make actions accept arguments?
Not possible I'm afraid.

    If so, what if there was some kind of action in Osara that would
    speak a custom text string? If it is possible, one could make custom
    action chains and put this action at the end of the chain and enter
    the string one would like to get spoken. This way any action could
    provide spoken feedback.

I don't think that's overly useful because you don't know whether the 
action succeeded. If it's just always going to speak the message 
regardless of whether the action succeeded, there's not much point in 
having the message, since it's always going to say the same thing when 
you press the action, and since you made the action, you know exactly 
what you're doing when you activate that action.

I can probably an add option to always speak the action name at the end 
of any unknown action, but I personally think this is pointless and I 
think it should be disabled by default to prevent false confidence in 
success.

Jamie

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