[duxhelp] Re: Embosser setup woes
- From: "Peter Sullivan" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:44:37 -0500
Joanie,
More correctly, whatever changes you make to the Desired Braille Document
Formatting group are applied to *none* of the embossers listed in the
listbox. The only connection between what is listed in the listbox and what
is on the other part of the dialog is that all of these things are displayed
in the same dialog.
Adding a dialog box is not difficult, but:
- It would need to be localized, and
- It would need to be tested for accesibility purposes. Anything that
pops up when a listbox selection changes is likely to cause a lot of
complaint. We went through this during the initial beta testing of DBT 10.5
- Peter
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joanmarie Diggs
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:49 PM
To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxhelp] Re: Embosser setup woes
Hi All.
Regarding Warren's original post: I'm not sure if I understand the behavior
Warren described, but here is what I did observe when trying to reproduce
his findings: If you have multiple embossers set up in the Global Embosser
Setup dialog box -- be they different models (like an Index and a Romeo) OR
different configurations (e.g. Index Narrow and Index Wide) -- *whatever*
changes you make in the Desired Braille Document Formatting group will be
applied to *all* of the embossers listed in the Brailler Device listbox. So
when I added a Romeo and set it up for wide width paper, 40 characters per
line, my existing Index (which had been set up for narrow width paper, 32
characters per line) adopted the settings for the Romeo.
Peter said:
2. This doesn't answer the question of what to do when the user
changes embossers.
That's a tough question. Every time I come up with an example where the
default settings of the new embosser should be used, I come up with another
where the settings associated with the document should be preserved and the
only thing that should change is the device producing the braille. So....
Please excuse my ignorance of software development, but how much work would
it be to add a dialog box? I am envisioning a dialog popping up and
prompting the user to either apply the default settings of the new embosser
or preserve the settings associated with the document.
Take care.
Joanie
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