Re: [Audacity-devel] Contrast Tool feedback

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

| From "David MacDonald" <be...@ma...> 
| Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:39:03 -0400
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] Contrast Tool feedback
> I believe you mean non- modal right?

I prefer to call it "modeless", but yes that's what I meant - 
did not read properly before send, sorry.    


> And that is what I believe Martyn has been able to achieve.

Yes it's so much better modeless now, but I hope we can consider
moving it slightly out of the way or make it less tall as I suggested.



Gale 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gale Andrews [mailto:ga...@au...] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:28 PM
> To: David MacDonald
> Cc: aud...@li...
> Subject: Re: Contrast Tool feedback 
> 
> 
> | From "David MacDonald" <be...@ma...> 
> | Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:03:40 -0400
> | Subject: Contrast Tool feedback 
> > In the next few days I'm going to take a thorough look at the audio
> contrast
> > tool. Martin said he found a way to make it non-Modal which is fantastic
> > news, so there are a few things I'd like to check on. I'll look at the
> ides
> > of background first issue too. Thanks.
> 
> Thanks, David.  
> 
> Don't forget the modal Contrast Tool isn't released yet - you'll 
> need the latest Alpha build from the usual place:
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nightly_Builds
> 
> If a Windows installer is essential rather than a zip, please ask. 
> 
> One question I have on the modal Contrast Tool is if it could 
> start with a lower x, y position. If the starting position was only, 
> say 60 px lower, you could in some cases see enough of the 
> topmost track to select from it without having to move it around
> first as now.  
> 
> Remind me too, is "for measuring rms volume differences
> between two selections of audio" not at the top because of screen
> readers babbling away? If the title bar or heading said "Contrast 
> Analysis (WCAG 2 compliance)", the Help button could just say
> "WCAG 2 Help" and we might be able to lose 60 px off the height 
> of the dialogue.    
> 
> 
> 
> Gale 
> 
> 
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ga...@au... [mailto:ga...@au...] 
> > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:35 PM
> > To: aud...@li...
> > Cc: be...@ma...
> > Subject: Contrast Tool feedback 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Martyn
> > 
> > I've had a few comments about Contrast Tool that suggest 
> > we might want to consider selecting background first (and
> > have it top of the dialogue) - it's only three people out of 
> > five, but it was the only comment that came up more than
> > once. The issue seems to be that if people using it are 
> > familiar with Noise Removal, they may think they are selecting 
> > the "noise" or "background" first in Contrast too, despite 
> > what the Contrast dialogue says.   
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Gale 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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