Hello,
You may find this redundant but in case somebody on the list has been
struggling, this is what I have found trying to manually sync my Ipod
Nano with the playlists in Itunes.
You will probably have found out by now that when choosing to sync
your playlists with your ipod, you are presented with the table of all
your playlists. Now, you have to interact with your playlists to start
with in order to cheque or uncheque individual playlists. For quite
some time, I would get into trouble in the way that I would cheque a
playlist with Vo+spacebar but what would get chequed would be quite
another list. I couldn't work out why it was happening until I had
read a message from Esther one day.
Now, if you have quite a list of playlist in Itunes, what seems to be
happening when you go down the list with vo+down arrow, is that you
get to the bottom of what is being displayed but you actually don't
know that because you don't get a feedback from Voiceover that would
tell you that you got to the end of what had been displayed. (Esther
has already mentioned the unreliability of the focus tracking
Voiceover in Leopard.)
Now, I have worked out that as soon as I get down some reasonable
distance down the list of my playlists in Itunes, I have to press vo
+shift+s to start scrolling. By using down or up arrows, I can move
the table list up or down and Voiceover tells me the direction of my
movement. Once I think I have moved down or up enough, I press escape
to stop scrolling. I find that I can then successfully cheque and
uncheque the playlist ietems I wish accurately for the transfer into
my Ipod.
I hope others will find this helpful.
I wonder hwether it is important to make Apple aware that there is a
focus problem in Leopard? Has anyone already written to them about it?
With best wishes
Simon
