Re: Coding iTunes need your suggestions
- From: John Martyn <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:06:36 -0800
The fast forward and rewind is control + left or right arrow. As far as
upgrades go, iTunes 9 is way different than 10. That is why I didn't release
the beta. I am making it for 10.2 and above. Things were working fine until I
updated to 10. Now I have to figure out some issues. I got the windows working
pretty good. They incorporated some new window instead of just a track list.
now, they list artists in a seperate column and the tracks in another. Also,
they made this stupid sidebar thing that locks you in it if you don't hide it.
It was like a webpage for the latest music. much like an advertising window. I
have to get the artist column and track column to work despite some issues so
it is going to take a little longer. iTunes doesn't respond the way the scripts
anticipate. Like you are supposed to be able to point the mouse cursor to the
middle of a window, but it doesn't on some windows. Anyway, back to work.
As far as updating this thing for future versions, I will keep on it since I
can't guarantee they won't do something that breaks the script. I'm trying to
make it consistent with unique items that shouldn't change. It is pretty
difficult.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yadiel Sotomayor
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Coding iTunes need your suggestions
I like the results and the enter portion. The fast forward should be some
simple key like lat plus right arrow. Or something like that. One thing that
worries me a bit John is what will happen to the scripts if jaws or iTunes is
updated? Would you design them to work after the update? Is that even possible?
From what you have mentioned it looks that it will kick the but of jTunes
bigtime. It sounds so good I am very excited.
From: John Martyn
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:54 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Coding iTunes need your suggestions
Ok, I figured out a way to keep track of these wayward windows. I have built
in a lot of stuff so far. It works so smooth with all these shortcuts. I can
move lightning fast through things and getting info like artist album track
currently playing, timecode, status of tracks, quick search, quickly shift from
the sidebar sources to the track lists by just hitting enter. Also, you can
jump to the sidebar sources area and move directly to the top of the list of
objects. Also, you can access the library directly, but this feature kinda
seems redundant since you can quickly switch to the sidebar and just hit enter
to pop into the library. I am working on the fast forward thing to make it
simple to do. Now is the time when I need your input on how you want to
navigate this application. The coding is going very quickly and I should start
focusing on the store portion and connecting devices to work with like an
iTouch etc..
Also I am wondering if it would be helpful to say how many tracks were found
after a search. You can quickly jump to the search box, type something and hit
enter, then it pops you right into the library instead of using F6. I really
didn't like that key as it was a time waster.
What would be helpful is if you tabbed through iTunes from the source area to
see what buttons and info you want quick access to. This is a matter of
preference but I'll try to accomodate the best ideas.
Yadiel J. Sotomayor
E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx
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