The activity I had did not change voices at all, it just enabled quicknav for certain apps. Even so, there was quite a lag, enough that I got tired of dealing with it and never used activities again. It's easy to say "don't let the lag stop you", but when you're used to quick operation and then have to wait every time you switch into or out of apps, it quickly gets to be frustrating. On Dec 2, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Kliphton.A.M <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even before I got my SSD, I didn't experience lag in voices when I had > different voices set up for different activities. AS for using iMessage, > just set up a commander to go to the beginning and, and then just inter act > with the HTML section when reading and replying to messages, works like a > charm for me! > > Kliphton Senior > (Email&iMessage) [email protected] > (Twitter&Skype) kliphton72 > (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com > (Life Journal) kliphton.wordpress.com > (face book) http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Baxter > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 8:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: activities (was easy way to use iMessage on mac) > > The lag when switching apps only gets worse if you choose a different voice, > and it's the one single drawback to Activities, which is otherwise an > extremely powerful way to use VO. I have, now, two activities; the normal > one, which I use for everything except messaging clients. I use AIM instead > of Messages, as I was having problems getting messages to read, and only use > AIM and SKype regularly--who needs more than two IM clients? sheesh. So, > for these two apps, I use Alex, who is slightly louder than Fred for some > reason. I slow him down a bit, as Fred can speak very quickly and I can > still understand him, but other voices this is not so much true. I turn off > all the elements of cursor tracking (There is no way to just turn cursor > tracking off, except with a manual keystroke, but you *CAN* go through and > uncheck all the boxes that say "VoiceOver cursor follows ." whatever, same > beastie in the end.. Then, I park my message client's VO cursors in the > HTML content window (leaving the insertion pointer in the edit boxes). It > sounds complicated but once it's all set up it's just a few keystrokes. > > This is just one way to use Activities. I've written to > [email protected] to suggest at least one or two others; activities > which could come "preset," with VO, but which might really help when using a > new app for the first time or whatever. That lag, though, I think is just a > processor hard limit, and will be better or worse depending on how much RAM > you have. > > Don't let this lag dissuade you from using Activities to customize VO and > make it even more flexible than it already is., > > > . Mark BurningHawk Baxter > . AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 . MSN: > [email protected] . My home page: > . http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > 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. > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- 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.
