Hi Brian,
Have you tried the VO feature called "window spots".
I use it with el cap and have set up num pad keys to set and remove window 
spots and man its great.
Window spots can be accessed by hitting "control option u" btw
This is really great in the transport section.
Talk soon
Chuck


On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Brian@Wavefield Recordings wrote:

> To clarify, the focus jumping back to the top of the mix window is
> happening both when opening plugins with the flo tools inspecter and
> the old school route.
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/5/17, Brian@Wavefield Recordings <br...@wavefieldrecordings.com> wrote:
>> Ah crap sorry Slau, I had a fear that some of this was already out
>> there, I  must get a better system for searching/archiving list posts
>> going.
>> 
>> Thanks as usual and apologies for going over old ground,
>> 
>> Preparing to learn to live in acceptance of the bugs,
>> Brian.
>> 
>> On 4/5/17, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Brian,
>>> This is the issue with VoiceOver and sierra that was discussed last year.
>>> Apple is aware of the issue and there are other focus issues with
>>> VoiceOver
>>> in Sierra. Yes, it is annoying that focus has sort of a "ghost
>>> remembrance"
>>> of what was previously in focus. There's no specific work-around except
>>> that, if you use the Inspector to bring up, say, the plug-in window
>>> rather
>>> than interacting, focus goes back to the track you were on before opening
>>> the plug-in window.
>>> 
>>> As far as hot spots go, you need to make sure that the hot spot is set to
>>> the table itself rather than a focused track, of course. Also, you might
>>> have to reset a hot spot since the OS update. I'm not sure if voiceOver
>>> focus in general has changed somewhat in Sierra but it might be worth
>>> resetting the hotspot. Incidentally, you can simply press
>>> Control+Option+j
>>> to jump to the track list table and you should automatically be placed on
>>> the first selected track.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Slau
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 5, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Brian@Wavefield Recordings
>>>> <br...@wavefieldrecordings.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> So as the subject explains I updated my second machine to test out how
>>>> things would work with the latest OS and latest PT version.
>>>> 
>>>> I've been mixing on the go this week and am a bit frustrated to find
>>>> that the following things have changed which greatly slow down my
>>>> workflow, so far I think these may be the only issues to pop up.
>>>> 
>>>> Firstly, when using the command option W key stroke to close plugin
>>>> windows, Voice Over jumps focus back to the top of the mix window i.e.
>>>> the left as you arrow with voice over, where as before closing the
>>>> window would land me back on the name of the track I was working on,
>>>> which I believe is the proper behaviour.
>>>> 
>>>> Further more when I arrow back over from the top of the mix window to
>>>> get back to the track I was working on it will sometimes randomly
>>>> arrive into the insert section of the track I was working on as I pass
>>>> by, as though it kind of half remembers I had been working on that
>>>> track or something. A bit strange and laborious.
>>>> 
>>>> Secondly, a small detail but a little annoying, I always set hot spot
>>>> 5 to the trackless table for speed of track selection and such, but it
>>>> used to automatically interact with he trackless table, now I have to
>>>> manually interact with the track list table after I jump to the hot
>>>> spots, not a major deal but its an extra key stroke in my work flow
>>>> that used to be unnecessary.
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't really tried solving these issues beyond running the
>>>> installer for flo tools again and have not yet had time to start from
>>>> a clean PT session to see if the problems still occur.
>>>> 
>>>> My main studio machine is still on Yosemite and as some of you may
>>>> recall, I couldn't check the box to let voice over be controlled by
>>>> apple script, so there fore couldn't install flo tools, so given the
>>>> change in behaviour of flo tools after upgrading my second machine,
>>>> I'm a little hesitant to do the same to my main machine just to get
>>>> flo tools up and running in case anything else goes wrong.
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as always and hopefully I
>>>> managed to get the message across relatively concisely,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Brian.
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