Re: [Audacity-devel] Previewing loses focus on Effect dialog?

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

Hi Gale,

On 7/20/07, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
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>     | From "David Bailes" <drb...@go...>
>     | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:18:54 +0100
>     | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Previewing loses focus on Effect dialog?
>     | it's not just you. It's very confusing, especially to users of screen
>     | readers. Can you fix it?
>     |
>     | David.
>     | On 7/18/07, Martyn Shaw <Mar...@ao...> wrote:
>     | > Martyn Shaw wrote:
>     | > On effects with previews...
>     | > > Something more annoying I have noticed: after a Alt-V works, the main
>     | > > window has focus, not the effect dialog, so a second Alt-V pulls up
>     | > > the main View menu; is this my out-of-the-box setup again?
>
> This is a regression from 1.2.x and though perhaps not "essential" I propose
> adding it as an "aim to" on the Checklist unless someone objects. The same
> failure to return focus to the Effect window after the Preview progress bar
> has stolen it occurs when using the mouse to preview.

I think that it's essential for users of screen readers.  Using
keyboard navigation, the only way back to the effect dailog is to open
it again. If you don't go back to it then you get an error message box
when you close Audacity.

> Although it does not help the problem, is using ALT necessary? I have a tweak
> in place so that keyboard navigation underlines are always shown, not just when
> pressing ALT. I turned this off, so that out of the box behaviour is respected, but
> the "v" in "Preview" is still underlined, and Preview works when the effect window
> has focus just by typing "V". This seems to be correct and normal in Windows
> to judge by the other apps. I looked at.

Standard behaviour is that the alt is needed except in menu bars and
menus. Which are the other apps where the alt is not required?

David.

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