Fwd: sam, Monday update, first-letter-navigation added

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi Didier,
Thanks for all the trouble you took.
I also picked up the same error on another on another machine.
   That  also was on a mixer called Mix.
You can download again and see if sam still crash on your setup.
It should tell you that it cannot set the mixer and allow returning to the 
mixer list.
I'll think about your suggestions.
Kind regards, Willem


On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

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> Re-posted because the initial message didn't go through
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> Instead, please find alsa-info.txt here:
> http://slint.fr/testing/alsa-info.txt
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> Subject: Re: sam, Monday update, first-letter-navigation added
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:28:37 +0200
> From: Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
>
> Hi Willem,
>
> tested in a qemu VM with 3 sound cards (alsa-info.txt attached).
>
> When pressing enter for card 0 then scrolling down to Mix,
> and pressing Enter again I got an error, redirected to samlog, attached.
>
> Other than that, suggestions:
> 1. It would be really useful, when there are choices, to be
> able to list them.
> For instances when I read:
>
> pick a sound card
> There are 3 choices
>
> I would like to be able to list the 3 choices
> before scrolling (using a function key, for
> instance, or typing a letter)
>
> Similarly, when I read:
> Pick a mixer on Intel 82801AA-ICH card number 0
>  There are 12 choices:
>
> I would like to be able to list the 3 choices
> before scrolling
>
> At first I thought that the F1 key allowed that
> as this is "more info".
>
>
> 2. I still think that it would be more "natural" to use the up or down
> arrow keys to increase the sound volume, which would be just one choice
> (adjusting the volume) instead of two.
>
> Pressing Enter then would have the same effect as pressing q, i.e. going
> back to the control choice.
>
> Additionally, playing a specific tune when the user tries to go out of
> the allowed setting range (e.g. > 100%) could be helpful.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Didier
>
> On 15/04/2019 17:59, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I think sam is about now what I had in mind when I started writing it.
>> Unless people uncover more bugs and or crashes, I think I am about done.
>> If there is something I have missed, please feel free to say so.
>> See the README.md file for a detailed explanation of the first-letter-navigation.
>> As always, grab sam from
>> http://www.sanote.co.za/downloads/sam-latest.tar.bz2
>> Kind regards, Willem
>>
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