Hello Ray, I have both menu and menu item verbosity set to "high". When I arrow to the airport extra menu without simultaneously pressing option vo reports seven items. When I press option-rightArrow to reach this menu, the number of items doubles and there is indeed additional data shown. I do not need to hold down the VO keys once I'm in the status menus as was suggested earlier.
HTH. Geoff This doubles when I do and in fact there is additional On Nov 11, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, I went in to the universal access menu, then, holding down the option > key, I arrowed right till I got to the airport menu. I didn't see any of > that stuff. Was I supposed to do anything else or differently? > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! > > Skype Name: > barefootedray > > On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > >> This seems to work well. You get the transmition type and some speed data. >> >> Cool >> Thanks! >> >> On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Geoff, >>> >>> You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability: >>> <begin quote> >>> As you probably discovered from ascertaining the ip address, under system >>> prefferences -> network, there's a box labeled "Show AirPort status in >>> menu bar". When checked, you can see information by either via trackpad >>> commander by double tapping the top with two fingers and locating "airport" >>> a little right of center near the top, or via the keyboard by pressing >>> vo-m-m and vo-arrow to thae airport menu (yet another illistration why I >>> almost always use trackpad commander, but I digress). >>> >>> Anyway, I read documentation indicating that one can press option-click in >>> order to expose a menu that shows information such as throughput and >>> channel number. I tried routing the mouse pointer, disabling trackpad >>> commander and pressing option-click, however it only brought focus to the >>> application. Perhaps there's another way to simulate an option-click in vo >>> so as to expose this menu? >>> <end quote> >>> >>> Like many things, this is in the archives <smile>. See Barry Hadder's tip >>> on extra status menus in SL, which I've pasted in below. >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08864.html >>> >>> "I found an interesting way to get extra airport status information. I >>> wanted to post this because I believe that it is new to sl. Open the status >>> menu with vo-m twice. Hold down the option key as you left or right arrow >>> over the airport menu icon. Now release the option key and arrow down >>> through the menu. This can be done on many of the other menus such as >>> volume, mobileme, etc." >>> >>> In fact, this was not new to Snow Leopard; it also works in Leopard, but is >>> a neat feature. And you can navigate to the status menu bar any way you >>> like, but you should have the Option key pressed before you right or left >>> arrow to the AirPort status menu if you want the additional information >>> displayed. Let us know whether this works for you. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
