Hi Garry and list
Do you think of adding the keystroke using the installation of Jaws script? I
think there are some people who beginner in computer skill, and they might have
difficulty to setup keystroke for moving track up / down. If you think it
useful, we can make an option to add keystroke to Audacity config file during
the installation of Jaws script
Cuong.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Campbell
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:19 AM
Subject: [audacity4blind] JAWS scripts "beta" version-- again
Hi again,
I have changed the keys that move a track up and down to
Control+Shift+Up/DownArrow. The scripts did work, but Open/CloseListBox did
not work properly. The files audacity.jkm, audacity.jsd, and audacity.jss have
changed. I include the others for completeness. The corrected version of the
previous message follows.
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It has been a long time since we have released a new version of the scripts,
but there has been on-going development. Theu de thuong will update the
Vietnamese translation of the README file when she isn't busy with schoolwork.
Fernando Gregoire has provided a Spanish translation of the messages and some
other things. He will update them for the new version. (I probably should
have sent the v2.0 translation out-- I thought we'd have something out before
now and I have been trying to figure out how to incorporate them into the
installer-- I think it's going to be pretty simple and manual for now.)
I am attaching files of a "beta" version of the scripts for those of you who
want to live on the edge to try out. To install them:
1.. Back up your current script files!
2.. Put the new files in your scripts folder.
3.. run Audacity
4.. open Script Manager (JAWSKey+f2)
5.. compile them by pressing CTRL+s.
6.. Close Script Manager.
For this to work, the Control+Shift+UpArrow and Control+Shift+DownArrow keys
must be assigned to the Audacity commands that move a track up and down. To do
this:
1.. In Audacity open Preferences (CTRL+p) and go to the Keyboard category
(press k).
2.. Tab to the edit box and enter "move focused" (I'm using tree view).
3.. Tab to the tree view and find Move focused track down.
4.. Press TAB to the Shortcut field and press Control+Shift+DownArrow.
5.. Press TAB to the Set button and press SPACE to activate it.
6.. Press Shift+TAB twice to move back to the tree view.
7.. Find the Move focused track up command and assign Control+Shift+UpArrow
to it in the same way.
8.. Tab to OK and press SPACEBAR.
I will copy the new part of the What's New file below.
I would like some testing and feedback for a couple of new features in
particular.
1.. I find it at best annoying that letter keys that have associated
scripts such as j, k, and r speak (or don't speak) when writing a label. This
version includes an experimental feature to make these keys speak while writing
a label. This feature may be somewhat problematic. Since we can't detect the
track type, the feature is enabled when commands are executed that write a
label. It is deactivated by commands that end the label or move out of the
label track, and when focus moves out of the track panel. If you move into a
label track with the arrow keys, the feature is not activated, even though you
can write in a label. If I've missed a way of moving out of a label track, the
feature will remain active. If this happens you can deactivate it by moving to
the toolbar or selection bar and back. Does it work for you? Do you like it?
Should it be controlled with a quick setting? If this works I might add speech
to some of the other letter keys that perform Audacity functions to at least
make them behave consistently.
2.. TAB and Shift+TAB now attempt to speak the active label while in the
track pannel. They do this by searching for text with the background color
white. This doesn't work all the time. I'm not sure if this is because the
label isn't visible, or if the search completes before it has appeared. Since
we can't tell whether the current track is a label track, it works any time
focus is in the track panel. Since TAB is not currently used for anything in
the track panel, this will hopefully be okay. This would not be needed if
Robert's mods for handling labels were added to Audacity, but he says that
isn't scheduled to happen any time soon.
3.. The Go to Track and Move Track to Track features work by sending
keystrokes to Audacity and are currently hard-coded to use
Control+Shift+UpArrow and Control+Shift+DownArrow. This means that these keys
must be assigned to these Audacity commands. I've thought of two ways to
handle this: 1) require that these key assignments be used, and 2) allow the
user to enter the keystrokes in an input box similar to the way the user guide
URL is handled. Do you think requiring a particular keystroke is okay or should
they be user specifiable?
4.. I hate thinking up new keystrokes for script features. I have put some
of the new features on layered keystrokes that start with JAWSKey+a-- because I
can't think of anything it is needed for in Audacity, and "Audacity" starts
with "a". After this keystroke, g and m prompt for a track number to go to or
move the current track to, respectively. Shift+g and Shift+m go to or move the
current track to the marked track. k marks the current track (because it's a
tiny bit like the keys that set a mark in IE and Word. x exchanges the current
track and mark (like the Emacs text editor). (I'm thinking of changing k to
space-- it's like Emacs :-) and easier to hit.)
5.. The code that silences the speaking of activation of Silence Preview is
a bit tricky as well. It is difficult to determine when to tell when it is
finished. If it doesn't detect the end of previewing, certain operations, such
as moving between tracks will not speak as expected. There is a fail-safe for
this-- when focus moves to Audacity from another application this feature is
deactivated.
I am trying to maintain support for versions of JAWS back to JAWS 10,
although some of the quick settings might not be supported. Is there any need
to support versions of Audacity prior to the current version?
Here is the new part of the What's new file:
(This file last updated 9/29/2015)
. Letter keys now speak while writing a label. This feature may be somewhat
problematic. Since we can't detect the track type, the feature is enabled when
commands are executed that write a label. It is deactivated by commands that
end the label (ENTER) or move out of the label track, and when focus moves out
of the track panel. If you move into a label track with the arrow keys, the
feature is not activated. It can be deactivated by moving to the toolbar or
selection bar and back. When this feature is active while playing or recording
ENTER terminates the label (and therefore exits label mode) rather than pausing.
. TAB and Shift+TAB now attempt to speak the active label while in the track
pannel. They do this by searching for text with the background color white.
This doesn't work all the time. I'm not sure if this is because the label
isn't visible, or if the search completes before it has appeared. It works any
time focus is in the track panel.
. Added code to refresh the track panel after CloseFocusTrack. This is
intended to make JAWS not indicate that the old track is still current.
. Changed Audacity web site to http://audacityteam.org (in source code).
. Added scripts MarkTrack (JAWSKey+a,k), GoToMarkedTrack (JAWSKey+a,Shift+g),
ExchangeWithMark (JAWSKey+a,x), and MoveCurrentTrackToMark (JAWSKey+a,Shift+m).
The "mark" remembers the number of the current track. This mark is very
simple-minded-- it will become confused if you add, delete, or move tracks.
For MoveCurrentTrackToMark to work, Control+Shift+UpArrow must be assigned to
the Move Focused Track Up and Control+Shift+DownArrow must be assigned to the
Move Focused Track Down Audacity commands.
. Added the ability to go to a track by number. Entering a number causes
focus to move to that track. Preceding the number with a plus sign moves down
(to higher track numbers) that many tracks. A minus sign moves up that many
tracks. When the operation is complete the name of the target track is spoken.
This is assigned to JAWSKey+a followed by g.
. Added the ability to move the current track to a track position by number,
similar to the Go To track feature. For this to work, Control+Shift+UpArrow
must be assigned to the Move Focused Track Up and Control+Shift+DownArrow must
be assigned to the Move Focused Track Down Audacity commands.
. Added scripts for Move Focused Track Up/Down. They speak the track that
the track being moved passed over. They are currently assigned to
Control+Shift+Up/DownArrow. For these to work, these keys must be assigned to
the Move Focused Track Up and Move Focused Track Down Audacity commands. These
will not work in Audacity versions prior to 2.1.1.
. In the track panel the keys Alt+UpArrow and Alt+DownArrow are now sent to
the application. Previously they were not sent through because of a conflict
with the OpenListBox and CloseListBox scripts.
. Added the ability to silence the speech that occurs when starting to record.
.Added ability to silence the speech that occurs during the previewing of an
effect.
. The URL for the JAWS User's Guide can now be updated via the script
(Control+Shift+j).
. Added support for the QuickSettings dialog (JAWS 13 and later).
. Made messages for moving and selecting more consistent.
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Thanks.
Gary
