Hi Matthew, I believe you have a Mac Mini? Under Snow Leopard, I don't know whether you can toggle the Preview pane without a mouse to double click on the horizontal splitter in the Mail window. I suspect the answer is no, unless you get Apple's Magic Trackpad to use in place of a mouse. Under Leopard, turning on Numpad commander and using the numeric keypad to perform a click had the same status as a "hardware click" by pressing a trackpad or physical mouse button, and would work even in situations where performing a "software click" with VO-Shift-Space would not work. But in Leopard, I could also toggle the Preview pane on or off by double clicking with VO-Shift-Space. I just checked that under Snow Leopard, I apparently can't use the Numpad Commander key action to click the mouse -- it works in situations where clicking with VO-Shift-Space will work, but not in the present instance where I have to click with a trackpad. I went into VoiceOver Utility (VO-F8), pressed "c" to go to the Commanders menu, and then went to the Trackpad menu (VO-RIght arrow and VO-Space on "Trackpad"). I checked the box to "Enable Numpad Commander" (VO-Space), and then navigated (VO-Right arrow) to the table of Numpad Commander key assignments and interacted. Since the "3" key was unassigned, I used VO-Space in the column for the command, arrowed down to "General", then arrowed right to the sub-menu (you can also press VO-Space to navigate to the sub-menu), and selected "Click Mouse" for the key assignment by pressing "c l" (you can also arrow down the selections).
However, when I tried to use the "3" key to double-click on the horizontal splitter, I heard the same clicking sound that I hear when I use VO-Shift-Space to double-click, but the splitter didn't drop. I should mention that I didn't use my USB numeric keypad for this experiment, so it's possible that if you use the numeric keypad on a full-size keyboard it may make a difference, but I doubt it. I tried double-clicking by holding down the left arrow key and double-tapping the "3" key in the number row of my laptop. (I don't know whether you remember this, but there was a fascinating post in the archive some months ago that you can get the Numpad Commander key actions by pressing one of the arrow keys along with the number key in the top row in lieu of pressing the same key on a numeric keypad if Numpad Commander is turned on in VoiceOver utility.) I also tried using my iPod Touch on the same wireless network with Edovia's "NumPad -- Wireless Numeric Keypad" app to generate the Numpad commands. (Don't laugh, this works, and is why I didn't bother to dig out my USB numeric keypad.) The other numpad assigned commands worked, and the "Click Mouse" assignment works in other environments (where VO-Shift-Space works), but not for dropping the horizontal splitter. Incidentally, I also tried interacting with the splitter and moving it down with VO-Down arrow, but I couldn't get it to drop down all the way this way. Only a double click can completely close out the message content window. There might be some way to read the plist file for mail through a property list editor, and configure hidden options, or assign them through a command line action in Terminal, but I wouldn't know how to do this. If you're interested in applying the iOS 4 type gestures of the iPhone and other such devices to your Mac, you could get Apple's Magic Trackpad and try using it with your Mac Mini. (I assume you're using Snow Leopard, or I think you would be able to use VO-Shift-Space to double click on the horizontal splitter.) Sorry not to have another solution. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 15, 2011, at 17:28, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hey ester, > > Have a question. I do not have any kind of mouse connected to my machine at > the moment. Is it still possible to togle the preview pain? Thanks. > > Matthew -- 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.
