Re: [Audacity-devel] click5.ny

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

    | From "David R. Sky" <dav...@sh...> 
    | Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:03:56 -0700 (PDT)
    | Subject: [Audacity-devel] click5.ny
    
Hi David 

Thanks -  returned herewith with some suggested modifications aimed 
mainly at making it look better for sighted users (change all/any if you 
don't agree).

On the dialogue itself, tidied up some missing square brackets and 
slightly different ;info line wording including explanation of start time 
offset. 

On the error dialogue:

* made clearer instructions for user

* capitalised ERROR (when shown) against a field to make it more 
   visible and give it a hyphen instead of colon 

* give OK when input is OK (oddly, I find that makes it much easier
  to identify the line with the error).

I am not 100% sure though if you might be better only to show the line
with the error, as even trying to improve it visually it is quite a lot to read
(and more of a pain with a screen reader if the error is in the last line)? 
OTOH it does tell them what they are allowed to input for each field. 
On balance I'd leave it as is, as long as there are no more fields than 
there are now. Or can you give them a button to press so they can read
what the valid inputs are if they want to know, then just display the line 
with the error?   

I notice that if you enter an alphabetical character in a field it treats 
the error as if you entered zero. If you enter a combined number and 
alphabetical character e.g. "3X" it shows in the error dialogue e.g. 
"ERROR - 3 beats per minute" which is of course valid as it stands. 

    | At this stage I have not yet included error MIDI pitch values in
    | error-checking since they can even be below 0 - negative infinity
    | is the MIDI value of 0hz.
    | if there's a range of MIDI pitches outside of which you'd like to
    | have an error thrown, let me know. Current lower and upper MIDI
    | pitch values are 48 through 96.

I think you can extend the allowable range significantly as long as you 
disallow something that is going to crash Audacity (as for example 922 
will). I have the attached set to minimum 18, maximum 116 and it 
sounded quite good to me at that setting (the 116 actually sounded a bit 
like a jingle bell that some people seem to want).     


Gale