Re: [Audacity-devel] playback slider increments

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Leland <le...@au...> 
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:31:31 -0500
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] playback slider increments
> Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> > Note that in 1.3.8 we have lost the functionality to click in the
> > Play-at-Speed or gain/pan sliders and then adjust with arrow keys - the
> > cursor moves instead of the slider unless you tab into the control to give
> > it focus. That seems like a P2 bug to me.   
> > 
> This is one of those choice kind of things.
> 
> The reason you can't do it now is because there was a complaint about the keyboard
> commands no longer working if you click the controls in the toolbars.  This was
> because the controls took the focus away from the trackpanel.  If we give the sliders
> focus via the mouse, then the same thing will start to happen again.

Hi Leland

This does not quite make sense to me yet. Why would a VI user use the 
mouse to click in (say) the input gain slider? If he CTRL + F6 and tabs
into there, the focus has gone from the track panel anyway. And if a 
sighted user has clicked the control, I can't see why they would want 
to use keyboard shortcuts. I thought a normal GUI rule was if you 
click somewhere it has focus. It certainly looks very odd, as well as
the loss of functionality.  



Gale