Hi Doug,
Yes, but sometimes it is nice to have a hotkey, like the Ribbon
technology and being able to go directly to a menu item instead having to
traverse the ribbon; a royal pain!
So, I have made enhancements, already added the 2 hotkeys in the dialog
before Aaron mentioned his hint. Also hopefully fixed the sleep mode and
even allows sleep during no activity, so someone could even used the wakeup
as an alert during such a thing as an hourly chime, once an hour, and the
sleep mode is all inside that time where no activity would happen anyway.
But, as usual, I do have problems with the copy file method, due to
being inside an event and such, so will spend today working around that
problem.
I noticed that usual work around are focus on buttons and could place it
all in the dialog off from the menu and then focus to those buttons...
Thanks!
bruce
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
Bruce,
I can't speak for Vic but, well, I'll try <smile>. I'm sure he wasn't
talking about a hotkey to take you to the specific pulldown menu. I'm
guessing he was just talking about a hotkey that would do the same thing
without having to go into the menus. I've never seen any application
that gave a hotkey to go to some pulldown off the main menu bar. I'm
not talking alt-f for file, I'm talking about some option off the file
menu that opens a pulldown. That just doesn't make sense to me. But it
is very common to have shortcuts or hotkeys to do the same thing a menu
option offers.
Doug
On 6/13/2011 3:35 PM, BT wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Vic had asked why I did not add hotkeys to get to menus so I
> responded
> with the lack of a focus to a menuItem in the menu methods.
>
> I was assuming that he may of wanted a hotkey to get to either the
> clocks menu or announce menu or something like that. You know, like the
> alt
> F key combination to get to the file menu or other menu items in a
> standard
> menu.
>
> For the menu list is limited to checked and things like that, but no
> focus method.
>
> Not a major deal for me, just others thoughts.
>
> Bruce
>
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> You said: "...since Doug and them said they did not want to expose
> menu's items I am limited on using hotkeys for it, since there is no
> focus option."
>
> Can you explain what you mean by this? I don't understand why in your
> own menu you need menu items and without them you are forced to hotkeys.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 6/12/2011 4:08 PM, BT wrote:
>> Hi Vic,
>>
>> There is only one chime on the hour if you select chime only and in
>> the
>> edit menu it states top of the hour. I guess poor wording on my part.
>>
>> Another issue, since Doug and them said they did not want to expose
>> menu's items I am limited on using hotkeys for it, since there is no
>> focus
>> option. but, I have added the Escape and F4 options to get out of the
>> menu,
>> since there is a dialog close command easy to get to.
>>
>> Now, I can also change the ChimeOnly to say Top Of the Hour Chime
>> Only
>> to make it read easier. After all that is what I did in the edit menu.
>>
>> I think to get around most issues is to eventually get out of using
>> a
>> menu and having a list. For there is very few options to use in a menu.
>> For
>> it would be nice to be able to jumped to a given menu item from a hotkey
>> instead of using a minimum of 2 keystrokes. In other words have at least
>> a
>> focus property.
>>
>> So maybe I will have something to upload today unless there more of
>> those pesky Active X errors that crop up when the menu does not like what
>> I
>> did...
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:20 PM
>> Subject: RE: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
>>
>>
>> Bruce,
>>
>> Yes. Changing the path got my sounds working. I am not clear on what the
>> chime and chime only settings are supposed to do. When I set it to chime
>> only, I hear just one chime. I thought this was supposed to chime the
>> number
>> of times for the hour. When I set it to chime and count, I hear the
>> number
>> of chimes for the hour, but not any indication of the count. Is that what
>> is
>> supposed to be happening?
>>
>> BTW: It is triggering correctly. My earlier complaint about not
>> triggering
>> was not correct after I re-installed.
>>
>> Great job!!!!! I look forward to the update.
>>
>> Vic
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BT [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:18 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
>>
>> Hi Again Vic,
>>
>> The problem with the .wav files is the path to find them is my path
>> and
>> yours I am sure is different.
>>
>> I think the easiest fix is for you to go into each sound edit and
>> the
>> default will come up for your sound file. It is using the path of my
>> computer in the .ini file and probably my mistake not thinking it would
>> be
>> a
>>
>> problem.
>> For I should have not had any sounds and let it find the defaults
>> when
>> first looking at the InitCuckooClock procedure, then all of this would
>> have
>> been no issue.
>>
>> So, now when packaging up my fixes and your suggestions today, I
>> will
>> get rid of all my settings in the .ini file and let the init section do
>> it.
>>
>> Sorry about the hassle and my rush to get it out. but, that is the
>> way
>> to find out the obvious mistakes a programmer works around when
>> programming.
>>
>> I was going to change the files for voice and the 45 may be a merge
>> instead of other files to even get off beat times instead of just
>> quarter/half hour voices. Something I was going to add later but may do
>> it
>> now.
>>
>> My issue last night instead of coming up a fatal error finally came
>> up
>> with the line number. I had fallen asleep and changed just one variable
>> name
>>
>> by adding a t at the beginning. But, kept coming up with nasty fatal
>> Active
>> X error that got or went no where beyond the error itself. so just a few
>> minutes ago when powering up it did tell me the line and sure enough it
>> was
>> inside the sleep procedure I was playing with and had settings that would
>> have triggered it then last night and that is where it fell apart...
>> Thank god for the Option Explicit command...
>>
>> So, vic try the editing of all the sound files and letting it do
>> the
>> defaults inside the brows command and save them and I think that will fix
>> the sound problems except the 45 one. When making it I had all 60 voices
>> and
>>
>> got conservative in how large I wanted the wav files and that one got
>> shrunk...
>> Time to get ready for Sunday School adult class...
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 8:05 PM
>> Subject: RE: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
>>
>>
>> Bruce,
>>
>> I think this app has great potential, but needs a few rough edges worked
>> out
>> yet. It is not working very well for me here on Windows 7 SP1 X64. Here
>> are
>> the problems I am having.
>>
>> When I first installed the app, I disabled the following menu items:
>> Alarm
>> Enable, Date/Time Enhancement, and Rooster Wakeup Enable. I left the
>> clock
>> set to Quarter Hour chime. On the edit menu I set the Sleep Time to 11:00
>> PM
>> and the Wakeup Time to 8:00 AM. On the Announcement menu, I left it set
>> for
>> Chime and Female.
>>
>> When it does announce the time, which it does not seem to do regularly, I
>> only hear the female voice, not the chimes. If I choose Test
>> Announcement,
>> I
>> again only hear the female voice, not the chimes. I did not change any of
>> the default sounds.
>>
>> If I set it to Chime Only and do a test, I hear nothing.
>>
>> If I set it to Chime and Count and do a test, I hear only the chimes.
>>
>> If I set it to Chime and Male or Chime and Female and test, I hear only
>> the
>> specified voice, not the chimes.
>>
>> The male 45 sound is not the same as the rest of the sounds.
>>
>> If I set it to Male Only or Female Only and test, it seems to work
>> correctly.
>>
>> There are also several issues with the dialog that I don't understand:
>>
>> You can't press Alt-C to bring up the Clock menu even though C is
>> announced
>> as the hot key. The other menu hot keys do not work as well.
>>
>> When you have the dialog up and alt-tab to it, the Alt key does not bring
>> up
>> the menu the first time you press it. You have to press it at least twice
>> to
>> bring up the menus.
>>
>> You can't just press Escape to exit the dialog. Alt-F4 does not work
>> either.
>> The only way I have found to close the dialog is to open the Clock menu
>> and
>> choose the Exit choice. This is a nuisance, especially since it is so
>> hard
>> to get into the menus in the first place.
>>
>> For some reason, it seems to take longer than usual to bring up the
>> dialog.
>>
>> I just re-installed and all these issues still exist, but it seems as
>> though
>> the announcement is firing better.
>>
>> This is purely based on my experience with the app and I hope you will
>> take
>> this as constructive criticism as it is meant, not putting down your app.
>> Let me know if you can duplicate any or all of these issues.
>>
>> Thanks for all your effort in putting out this full-featured app.
>>
>> Vic
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BT [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 12:49 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Cuckoo Clock Ready for Upload
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> My cuckoo Clock version 1.0 is ready for upload now.
>>
>> In this app you will have a menu consisting of:
>> Clocks Settings to turn on/off all options for sleep, alarm and even noon
>> whistle.
>> In that menu is a chime option for once an hour, every half hour
>> and
>> every quarter hour.
>>
>> The app starts with the Rooster Crowing, it indicates it is running but
>> that
>>
>> alert can be shut off in the clocks menu.
>>
>> It has some of the features of the old Hourly Chime program and
>> many
>> new
>>
>> aspects.
>>
>> In the edit menu you can change the files you wish to use for your
>> alerts to make sounds, such as the Cuckoo clock itself.
>>
>> Those sound files require a certain number of seconds to run and
>> that
>> also must be entered.
>> So for editing sound files you will have a path, file name, and
>> duration
>>
>> of play time in tenths of a second to enter; (seconds is a combo box
>> choice
>> and requiring no entry.)
>> There is also the edit option for setting the sleep time, wakeup
>> time,
>> and a alarm that runs separate from the others to give you an alert for a
>> specific time of day. All those entries are a combo box selection as
>> well.
>>
>> The sleep mode will turn on and shut off the chiming of the
>> program.
>> When wakeup happens the Rooster crows, or a sound of your choosing.
>> That Rooster also can be shut off if you just want it to wakeup and
>> say
>> nothing as I had mentioned earlier.
>>
>> There is a format menu which is only for the 12 verses the 24 hour
>> format, which ever you wish; default is 12 hour.
>>
>> So, next is to get it uploaded and for everyone to find all the
>> bugs
>> in
>> it...
>>
>> Sincerely
>> Bruce
>>
