[bookport] Re: Problems with preview in latest beta
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:06:48 -0500
As I said in my other response, use of ESC is not documented anywhere with
regard to canceling an audio preview--I know because I looked for it just
before writing my original message on this subject.
I appreciate your distinguishing and explaining in detail the distinctions
regarding Auto Preview and the preview window. I wish, again, that this
granularity of explanation was contained in the manual.
In all honesty, I use dozens of applications, each of which come with their
own sets of navigation keys, so memorizing them isn't quite as simple and
straightforward as you may think. I consider myself fairly experienced with
the BP, specifically, and computers in general, but I still find it more
efficient in many instances to TAB through a window than to try to remember
shortcuts. My own ease-of-use suggestion would be to move the Preview Window
to the very bottom of the transfer window so that it would be out of the TAB
order, but would still be available to those who actually want to use it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Problems with preview in latest beta
There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the preview feature of
Book Port Transfer. Let me clear things up.
The preview window, accessed with Alt+P, attempts to give a brief
overview of the contents of a file. The window is always present, and is
always activated when you move to it, regardless of how you got there.
For example, if you move to the preview window while tabbing to some
other control, the preview window is activated.
The Allow Auto Preview checkbox in the Advanced page of the Options
dialog is only used to control whether or not the preview window is
triggered automatically when moving through files. This feature is on by
default, and fills the window with text when possible. If an audio file
is selected in the source window, a portion of the file is played. This
lets you read and/or hear something about the file you have selected.
If you clear the Allow Auto Preview checkbox, nothing will happen as
you move through potential Book Port content. This is the purpose of
this checkbox. It is not intended to make the preview window stop
functioning. This has always been the case; nothing about this
discussion applies to the current beta specifically.
But, if this checkbox is cleared, you can still get a preview if you
want one. Simply set focus to the preview window as mentioned above. An
audio preview can always be canceled at any time by pressing Escape, and
may be restarted from the beginning by pressing F7.
Apparently, some users are accidentally winding up in the preview
window while in route to some other control. My recommendation for
solving this problem is to use the hotkey of the control you wish to
activate, rather than tabbing through the entire window. For example, it
is NEVER necessary to hit the Send button; it is only there for
sighted/mouse users. So, to send a file or group of files, simply press
Enter. If you want to move to the Book Port file list, simply press
Alt+F. For the Options dialog, hit Alt+O. I understand that tabbing
through the dialog is necessary while learning it, but regular users
should have no trouble with hot keys.
Rob Meredith
>>> walt@xxxxxxxxxx 12/21/05 11:43AM >>>
I know we've been down this road before, but it seems to be back. Even
though I have Auto Preview turned off in my options because I hate
having
Audible books start reading if I happen to TAB over that button,
they're
still being previewed. Moreover, there appears to be no way to stop
this
except to bail out of the transfer program completely. I wonder how
many
users actually make use of this feature and whether we might not be
better
off just having it removed entirely--any comments?
--
Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL
walt@xxxxxxxxxx
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