2014-11-17 19:10 GMT+01:00, David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Robert, > yes, I do build Audacity from source, as do at least a couple of others on > the list. > > I'll reply to other points shortly, but this is just about helptext. > Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be very usable to do this. If you > include helptext, then by default jaws says "insert f1 help" after reading > the name of the control, and this can get really annoying. You can switch it > off either by changing the verbosity level to intermediate of advanced, or > by setting smart help to off in the beginner verbosity settings. But I don't > think that a user, especially a beginner should have to do this. As a far > more minor issue, narrator on window 8 reads out the help text, and I don't > know of any way of switching it off. Not sure how voiceover handles help > text on the mac. > So mainly do the Jaws's behaviour, I don't think that help text if a useful > route to go down. > As an alternative, perhaps a track could have a properties dialog? > > thanks for all you suggestions, > David. Hi David I'll attach the patch anyway. I believe that a property dialog isn't helpful either. I have the principle that all that is available to normal users with a single glance should also be available to us with a single key stroke or even automatically. The first line of the helptext string can as well be added to the normal name string itself. We can reduce the information overload by removing values that are common to the project settings. Thus, 44100 Hz and 32-bit float would never be displayed if the project has those values as default. We can also omit stereo, as it is probably the most common track type and there would be displayed Mono". Actually, "Left" and "Right" are already reported with the patch applied, I find that extremely useful after a "Split Stereo" to discriminate the two channels that do normally share a single name. The word "Label Track" could be replaced by the first line of the helptext for label tracks. E.g. "No Labels defined" etc. Robert
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