Hi Slau Thanks for the quick reply and the very good summery. I certainly had my fair share of issues with mouse clicking in the past and 90% of the time I don’t get the click with the first try. It certainly sounds as if a trackpad would be helpful in some situations and maybe I should just take the plunge and get one. Thanks again, if you can think of anything else to add, please do.
Nickus > On 24 Aug 2015, at 6:13 PM, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nickus, > > The advantage of a track pad is that, when you go to perform a click, all you > have to do is touch the surface anywhere on the track pad and you'll be > successful. the problem with the mouse is that, when you go to touch it, you > might accidentally move the mouse before clicking. It's not reliable enough. > Yes, it works in a pinch but I personally couldn't live with that day in and > day out. The track pad is stationary and large. It won't move when you get > your bearings and it doesn't move after you've pressed it. To me, it's more > reliable and consistent. Since its active range is fixed in a physical > dimension, it's possible to touch a specific point and move the focus to that > area of the screen more reliably than having to move a mouse which is only > relative to the mouse's travel rather than an actual physical point. I tend > not to use the track pad for those purposes but it's certainly possible to > use it that way and some folks might find that really helpful. For example, > in the Mix window, you can touch, say, the right side of the track pad and > you'll hear the names of tracks that appear toward the right side of the Mix > window. Rather than starting from the left with voiceOver and moving through > all of the tracks, the track pad allows you to more quickly focus on that > right side area to begin with. Once you've located the track, you can then > pick up with keyboard commands. The same holds true for other windows. Again, > I typically don't use it that way but it's entirely possible and others might > prefer that method. > > Cheers, > > Slau > > On Aug 24, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Nickus de Vos <bigboy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all >> I was just wondering about a track pad yesterday. How useful is a trackpad >> in terms of use with PT? Are there a lot of advantages, ways to do things >> quicker, nice commands etc we can use in a typical PT workflow? basically, >> would you say it would be worth for me to buy a trackpad to use with my iMac >> and Pro-Tools? For some reason back when buying my iMac they didn’t want to >> give me the option here in SA to take a trackpad with my iMac rather than >> the wireless mouse. >> >> Nickus >>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 3:42 PM, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, Track Pad Commander takes over the functionality so you can't do >>> regular mouse clicks with that mode enabled. Glad you figured it out. >>> >>> Slau >>> >>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Martin (Punky) Sopart <m...@cakewalker.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Slau! >>>> >>>> Disabling the trackpad support in the VoiceOver utility make everything >>>> work again. >>>> My fault was that I tried it in the edit window. >>>> >>>> Thank you and have a nice day! / Martin >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
