[Rwp] Especially to Jamie: Selecting the Master Track

[Matej Golian]

Thanks, Jamie. Good to know that it is still on your to do list. Also,
thanks for explaining why implementing my idea would have been a bad
thing. I haven't thought of all those scenarios.

2015-10-29 1:51 GMT+01:00, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> 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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