Hi, sure, this still works. The thing is, instead of pressing VO shift up/down, you press VO shift left/right when you are interacting with the slider. I do this many times a day to set the BPM in Garageband projects.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Christopher-Mark gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > ok, but if I hit say a slider on the screen, and interact with it, if I then > wanna move it up in small movements, you're saying hold the shift key down > while doing it? Wouldn't that not work? Think about that... to move the > slider, you'd use vo+up and down arrow after interacting. Well, if I wanna > move it up a little bit, then vo+up arrow, with the shift key... so... > vo+shift+...oops? I just stopped interacting with the slider. Bummer! > > What 'em I missing? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: Speaking rate in Voiceover > > > Hi Chris, > > It used to be that holding down the shift key as well would act as a modifier > to slow down the adjustment rate of various items such as volume, rate, etc. > This was a general Mac feature, not just for adjustments in the VO controls. > I'm not sure this works now with the plethora of shortcut key controls and > QuickNav, but somebody else may be able to tell you how to do this. It could > just be that my current setup conflicts with being able to do this, or maybe > you can still do this on a full size keyboard? It was certainly a feature in > older versions of the Mac OS X operating system. One of the gruesome details > of inadvertently pressing the Exposé key shortcuts back instead of the F key > combination you really wanted in Leopard was, that not only could you not > tell what was going on (e.g. visual windows moving for selection -- analogous > to using Window chooser menu but turning your screen into a kind of icon view > of windows) -- but if you happened to hold down the Shift key as well, this > would all happen in slow motion, and it would take even longer to recover > response. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08, Christopher-Mark gilland wrote: > >> OK, I know about using vo+command+left and right arrow then when on rate, I >> can move it up or down with vo+command+up and down arrows, but here's the >> thing... >> >> It's moving in 5% increments. I kind of remember a while back, it's been >> quite a while, but I vaguely remember someone saying that there was a little >> trick to actually adjust that in finer notches, where I literally could move >> it just a percentage at a time. >> >> Can someone refresh my noggin on how to do that? LOL! >> >> Chris. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
