Re: [Audacity-devel] multiple label tracks

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

| From James Crook <cr...@in...> 
| Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:17:45 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] multiple label tracks
> Gale Andrews wrote:
> > Unfortunately restoring the ability to create a label by just typing
> > when the focus is in the Label Track, does break the ability to add a
> > label, hit ENTER to confirm, then use unmodified hotkeys like 
> > P, 1 or B to control playback without switching focus to the audio track.
> 
> Surely the easy way to fix that - if it is JUST that scenario to worry 
> about - is to modify ENTER so that it takes focus off the label track? 
> My suggestion is that ENTER typed in a label track put focus on the 
> first audio track.
> 
> So is there some other case we need to worry about too?  I'm planning to 
> go ahead with this fix, so if anyone does not think this will solve the 
> problem they need to say so.

I suggested exactly the same thing when we were discussing it and Leland
felt it was too presumptuous to assume that the user wanted to switch
focus after ENTER. You also have to consider if the user has multiple
tracks, he may not want to switch focus to the one which our rule has
decided he should switch to. He was also concerned what happens if there
is no audio track to switch focus to.  

With the old code I always used to just use the arrow key after ENTER to
switch focus, and I pointed that out to David B, and also that
potentially you could use a modifier for playback hotkeys to work round
the problem. I think the upshot was that screen reader users need the
focus in the Label Track while playing the corresponding audio.  


Gale