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From: John Riehl [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 11:47 AM
To: gwinfo
Subject: a couple of comments on windoweyes 7.5
I've been a long-time 'windoweyes user
[.db] me too. I switched from JFW to WE in 2002.
and, with a couple of exceptions, love the product -- I think it's in most
ways much better than the competition.
I have a couple of comments on 7.5. these are based on limited use and some
attempts to find information in the manual; I haven't gone through the
entire manual or tutorial yet.
1. I do like the fact that one can set all voice and other parameters
from one menu rather than having to go in and out of menus each time you
change a parameter. Nice innovation, Gw Micro!
[.db] I agree
2. However, I do not like the new interface. first, windoweyes is far
too verbose when alt-tabbing to it from other programs. I don't want or need
to hear menu choices, and I find it annoying that I end up on the last menu
choice I made, whether I'm in minimize or in some other part of the
Interface. [.db] the day will come, when you are fine tuning a setting, you
will find this useful.
If there's a way to just make windoweyes say "windoweyes" when alt-tabbing
to it, or just the associated setfile, as it did before, I'd like to here
it. I think this needs to be improved for the next release.
3. I find the new interface hard to navigate; some of the categories aren't
obvious. Part of this is my unfamiliarity with the new interface. for me,
the new interface isn't better, on the whole; it's just different, requiring
a learning curve that, at my advanding age (smile) I'm less and less willing
to engage in. [.db] I agree. I'm long past the desire to learn new tricks
and just want to do what I do with minimal effort.
4. I haven't figured out how to actually change voices.
[.db] Go down that first list till you hear devices. Hit right arrow to
open the group and down to synthesizers then tab a couple times till you
land on the list of voices for your synthesizer of choice. .
I can find voice rotor, and how to add or delete a voice, but I haven't
found where to actually switch voices. It was not obvious from where I
looked in the manual.
5. I would never have thought to look for the Voice rotor in the Apps
menu. I think this menu needs to be renamed, or another menu needs to be
created. I found voice rotor only by stumbling across it, so to speak.
[.db] Well, the voice rotor is a script, or app as they like to call them
now, and not actually part of the program. And it is a very useful script
too.
I'm finding the menus less intuitive.
6. As I'm tabbing through the menus, I keep hearing "xxxx toggle scope,
button", then another tab brings me to where I can set or change the
parameter. Again, this is probably due to my lack of familiarity and not
fully reading the manual, but I don't' understand the purpose of the "scope
toggle buttons" . I'm finding it confusing and a pain to tab through to get
to the actual parameter I want to change.
there may be a quite logical reason for this added thing; I just haven't
found it.
[.db] You will, as I did just the other day. I will dig up the notes on it,
most excellent detail provided by Jeff wyse as I recall. When I do, I will
send it you off list if someone doesn't do it sooner.
I hope Gw Micro will be working with Mozilla to come out with an update
which fixes Firefox 4's problems.
Thanks for all of your hard work, Gw Micro;p I hope these comments are
helpful.
John riehl
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