[Rwp] Especially to Jamie: Selecting the Master Track

[Chris Belle]

Sounds good to me.


On 10/28/2015 10:18 PM, Derek Lane via RWP wrote:
> I think, especially with the access to the context menus which exist, 
> navigating and selecting the master track should, at the very least, 
> be an option.  It would be a checkbox worded something like: "allow 
> navigation to master track."
> I think the track should be the last on the list, just as one would 
> find the master section on most mixers on the right side, past all 
> other controls.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* James Teh via RWP <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>     *To:* Reapers Without Peepers <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>     *Cc:* James Teh <mailto:jamie at nvaccess.org>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2015 8:51 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Rwp] Especially to Jamie: Selecting the Master Track
>
>     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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