In many cases, when scrolling through 'lists' or choices, there is a ton of
'guiding text' on the Braille display. This tends to be before the real choice,
meaning, that if you are using a short Braille lin - i.e, a 40cell line - you
won't see the real selected choice, without SCROLLING your display back and
forth, for each choice. OK, let me give you a couple of examples, and you will
see what I mean. My question is, if we really NEED to have all this 'guiding
texxt' showing up all the time, while making our choice. At least, could it be
made a matter of a checkbox in the Braille setup menu, whether you want the
guiding text or not. Let's wait one more day for 7.1??? :)
Example 1:
Go to the WE menu, and choose the script menu. As you scroll down your list of
installed script, the Braille line will show:
Script for Global Addremove.vbs
Script for Global GWToolkit
Script for Global MyOwnScriptIsFun
Example 2:
Go to Outlook Express, and then tab over to the Folder list. I have sorted my
OE, the way, that there is several folders under my inbox, some of them with
subfolders. For instance, there is a folder named Ebay, which has its subfolder
named Findings. When scrolling down to it, my Braille display wil read the
following line:
Folders Findings (18) Ebay (1) Inbox (22) Local Folders
(The numbers in the parenthesis, are the number of unread messages, and is K
enough to be there). But whhy do I need all the long information? All I want to
know, is that I have scrolled down to the Findings folder. If now, I was
uncertain as to the whole 'tree' of my possition, why don't we have a way of
calling for that info (i.e a certain keystroke - ALT-INS-B - for showing full
Braille info).
Example 3:
Since first in OE, let's try to define a message rule. Go to the message menu |
Create rule from message, make your choices under point one and two, and scroll
down to the place (in point 3), where you want to define the folder to move the
message to, then press INS-NUMPAD+, to get the mouse there, and left click
(NUMPAD /).
Your Braille line now will read something like this, when scrolling down the
list of folders:
Move the selected item(s) to the selected folder: Local folders
Move the selected item(s) to the selected folder: Inbox
Move the selected item(s) to the selected folder: Ebay
Well, again, why do I have to move my fingers across the whole line of 'Move
the selected item(s) to the selected folder:' message? This actually, does not
even fit into one line on a 40cell display, which means, that for every time I
press the up-/down-arrow keys on the keyboard, to scroll the list of choices, I
will have to move my Braille display to the right, to read the actual choice I
am on. POOFFF! Tricky? Wearysome? Unnecessary load of info?
First we are speaking about Braille functions:
Could it be implemented a feature in WE, where you could have 'locked' the
Braille display in a certain possition on the line? I.e, say you know, the info
in a text, like a column, would be from character 25 through 49. If now, you
could have locked your display to start at position 25, by scrolling down the
lines, you would always see the text starting at position 25, and how many
characters ahead, your display might have. A quick 'hotkey' could be used to
turn this 'position locker' on/off.
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