Re: [Audacity-devel] Menu Greyed-out items.

[David B. <drb...@go...>]

Hi,

On 7/10/07, Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> wrote:
> James Crook wrote:
> >
> > Gale Andrews wrote:
> >
> >>     | James Crook wrote:
> >>     | I like the way items grey-out when they are not available and appear
> >>     | dark when they are available..... however does need to change
> >>
> >> Does it follow that we need to change that though? What I envisaged was
> >> that if there is no track selected when you click on the Effect menu, Audacity
> >> selects All, so then the items in the Effect menu ungrey. If it was managed so
> >> that if there is no track selected, you click on Effect, then you see the track
> >> become selected in the waveform and the menu items ungrey, this is very
> >> transparent to the user what is happening.
> >>
> >
> > Yes.  That's logical Gale.
>
> Agree.

If tracks and a time range become selected, then this isn't
transparent to users of screen-readers. They would have to navigate
through the tracks and spin-boxes on the Selection bar to work out
what had happened.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I think that the model used by
photoshop has some advantages. If no tracks and/or time range is
selected, then an effect is applied to all tracks and/or all time, but
the selection on the interface is not affected. With this scheme:
- it's easy to apply effects to all the audio, which is often what a
user wants to so.
- the user doesn't have to unselect everything after applying an effect
- a user of a screen reader doesn't have to remember that everything
has been silently selected.

David.