Very nice but one question. Why would you want to either hide or unhide the preview pane?
In the Journey, Ron On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > OK, I myself and a few of my other friends have wondered how to toggle on and > off the mail preview in mail that is below the messages table using Snow > Leopard. It certainly was easier to do this in both Tiger and in Leopard, > but, here's how to do it in 10.6. A sighted friend and I have confirmed at > least five times that this consistently works regardless how your view is set > in Mail. > > 1. Open up Mail. > 2. Be sure that you're not interacting with anything whatsoever by pressing > vo+shift+sup arrow until you hear a ding. > > 3. Move to the top of the screen with vo+home, or fn+vo+left arrow, > depending on your setup. > > 4. Vo+right arrow past your mailboxes table, then one more time to the > messages table list, and finally one more time to a horizontal splitter. > This is where the hiding magic is gonna be at. > > 5. Even if your mouse follows your voiceover cursor, trust me with this as > this doesn't appear consistent route your mouse pointer with vo+command+F5. > remember that you may have to also use the fn key if your F keys are set to > hardware. > > 6. Now, here's the trick. instead of doing like before, and double clicking > with a double vo+shift+space, you need to literally speaking click the > physical mouse. I don't mean click with a literal click through voiceover. > Even vo+shift+space... that isn't good enough. You literally for some odd > reason have to click the actual mouse or track pad. Remember if you are on a > macbook using a track pad, the track pad is set up in such a way that > different parts of it do different things. I wasn't aware of this, until my > friend told me. So, what you want to do after routing your mouse to that > horizontal splitter, is to left double click. So on a track pad, that will > need to be done by double clicking at the very bottom left corner of the > track pad. Otherwise, just reach up to the mouse and double click the left > mouse button, or the only mouse button there if you have an external apple > mouse. Now the area should be gone. Voiceover won't tell you this right > away, but trust me, if you do it right it'll work consistently. > > > To turn the preview payne back on...: > > 1. Make sure in mail that you're again, not interacting with anything at all. > > 2. Now navigate to the top left of the window with your vo+home or > fn+vo+left arrow, again depending on your setup. > > 3. Next, vo+right arrow until you reach the message list table. Trust me > with this. > > 4. Press vo+shift+down arrow to interact with the messages table scroll area. > > 5. Highlight with vo+down arrow, any message in the list. It doesn't matter > which one, just so that one is selected. > > 6. Press vo+shift+up arrow to stop interacting with the message list table. > > 7. If you now vo+right arrow, you're gonna see two horizontal splitters. > you want the second one you'll come to. A short way to get there is to do > vo+end, or fn+vo+right arrow. Basically, it's at the very bottom right > corner of the screen. Now remember from above, you ***have!*** No ifs ands > or buts to it, you have! to have a message highlighted in the message list > table. Otherwise this second horizontal splitter won't even be there. Once > you find that second horizontal splitter, do like we did a second ago to hide > the preview. So, route your mouse, vo+command+F5, plus your fn key if > needed, then again, left double click your mouse. Again, bottom left corner, > if you're on a track pad like on a macbook. Again, Voiceover won't > necessarily tell you it worked. But again, it's very consistent. Trust me I > did it about 5 times. It does work, if you do it correctly exactly as I've > told you to do it. > > A very warm thanks to my friend Norma Watts for this tip. > > One more thing is, by the way, when you go to unhide the preview, make sure > you have a message highlited in the message list. I can't stress that > enough. If you don't have anything in the message list as it's empty, then a > sollution would be either to find a mailbox that has some messages populated, > or if worst last resort, just e-mail yourself to make a message pop up in the > table. > > The other thing is, I don't thing you have to have a message highlighted when > you're hiding the preview. Only when you're unhiding, however, just to be on > the safe side, until I figure out otherwise, it may be good practice anyway > to highlight a message first, even when hiding. > > I hope this helps some of you out. YOu all're definitely welcome to post > this on any web site or blog. I have no problem with that. > > Take care. > > 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.
