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Inconsistent Mode Settings Persistence

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Inconsistent settings persistence between Mode selections when changing between Simple and Advanced modes.

ie:

Disabling "Send 'is typing'"

Enabling "Mute all sounds"

...changes to:

"Send 'is typing' enabled.

"Mute all sounds" disabled.

Expected behavior:

Changing Modes should maintain previous settings. If Advanced Mode had selections they should persist between modes

Windows 11

VarAC: V10.2.1

VARA HF: v4.8.9

2 comments

2 Comments

irad d

Dec 13

Hello ham4life73

A UI mode is not the same as a VarAC profile where you can have multiple profiles each with different setup and switch between them.

When moving into simple mode, some functions are taken away from the screen for simplicity. Usually people start there and move to Advanced when they feel comfortable and not coming back.

Once those features are moved away - a default behavior is enforced on them as you can not change them while in simple mode. When going back to advanced mode - that settings remains to reflect the status it were in so now when you see the advanced UI - you know you can turn it off and you are not under the impressions that it was always off behind the scene..

This is not a bug rather than an expected behavior which meets the goal of this features.

73s

Irad

Mark Rosneck

Dec 13

Replying to

To add some additional context, the unintended consequence is that people who are using Mute all sounds as a means of suppressing the Narrator from being transmitted will have the Narrator once again being transmitted unless they reselect Mute all sounds.

Clearly, people should be selecting their Default Speaker to their computer's speakers to avoid the issue altogether. Rather than having a situation where we hear more stations transmitting the Narrator, perhaps Send is typing, Mute all sounds, and I'm away should also appear in the Simple mode.

Edited