Re: Re: Problem with play/pause key (Mac)
Up one level
Re: Re: Problem with play/pause key (Mac)
Ok, I see, I can partially recreate the problem. On my system it does not depend on the Look and Feel setting. I can select the Space bar for Play/Pause and it works until one of the control buttons in the main window has been pressed. Clicking somewhere in the Timeline viewer deselects all buttons and the Space bar functions again for Play/Pause. It might be possible to always deselect all buttons after one has been clicked in order to circumvent the default spacebar behavior; I don't know if it is possible to disable it on the system level.
It is something very platform specific and even very "spacebar specific", which makes it kind of nasty to fix (unless it was a matter of a simple setting). For the time being a solution might be to ONLY use the keyboard shortcuts of the buttons and never click on them?
About the Look & Feel: if you deselect both the "MacOS Look And Feel" and the "Screen menu bar" option and relaunch ELAN (crucial) you'll see a quite different user interface design. It doesn't solve the spacebar problem though.
-Han
Re: Re: Re: Problem with play/pause key (Mac)
I've thought of only using keyboard shortcuts and not clicking at all. Probably the best solution for now.
But on my system I found one thing to be different from what you write: Clicking on the timeline does not unselect a previously pressed button. Only when I click on a tier, and then on the timeline it gets unselected.
However, it would be great if the buttons would not remain selected in future releases.
But you are right. Now I can't see a difference with the different looks. I've relaunched ELAN with both Mac Feel and Mac Screenbar turned off, and both on, and now it behaves all the same. Maybe I've confused something.
Actually on my system there is a different problem with the non mac look: The video preview floats over everything, i.e. the File, Edit and Annotation menus are hidden by the videoframe. That's probably not intended. (I run Mac OS 10.6.2)
Anyway, thanks for your help,
best,
Jan
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
