Menus and preferences

VoiceOverAndOver uses a native menu bar - on Windows it lives at the top of the application window, on macOS at the top of the screen. The menus are short on purpose; almost everything you do day-to-day lives on the actual screens. The menu bar is mostly for help links, the About box, and the one configurable preference (the waveform background color).

The Application menu (macOS only)

On macOS the first menu, named VoiceOverAndOver, contains the standard Cocoa items every Mac app has:

• About VoiceOverAndOver - opens the custom About box (see below).
• Services - macOS services submenu.
• Hide VoiceOverAndOver, Hide Others, Show All - standard show/hide commands.
• Quit VoiceOverAndOver - exits the app. (Cmd+Q)

On Windows and Linux this menu does not exist; the equivalent commands live elsewhere (Quit is on File, About is on Help).

File menu

Standard file operations and (on non-macOS) the Quit command.

• Quit (Windows/Linux only) - exits the app. (Ctrl+Q)

Edit menu

Standard text editing commands. These work in any text field in the app (the project name field, the script textarea on New Project, the rename dialog).

• Undo, Redo
• Cut, Copy, Paste
• Select All

View menu

Two items:

• Configure Waveform Background... - opens the preferences screen for the waveform color (see below).
• Toggle Developer Tools - opens the underlying browser engine's dev console. Only useful if you are debugging a problem with the support team.

Window menu

Standard OS window management:

• Minimize
• Zoom (macOS) / Maximize (Windows/Linux)
• Bring All to Front (macOS)

Help menu

Every Help item opens a URL on chiltonwebb.com in your default browser (not inside the app). All links go through your system's default browser so they open exactly like clicking a normal web link.

The Help menu showing all items on Windows/Linux. On macOS the About item lives in the Application menu instead of Help.

The About box

The About box is a small dedicated window with the app icon, the name, the version, the credit line, and the copyright. The version number is pulled live from the app's package definition - whatever build you have installed is what shows up.

The custom About window with the app icon, version line, credit line, and copyright.

The About box is the same window on Windows and macOS - the same HTML, the same layout, the same wording. On macOS it replaces the standard truncated Cocoa About panel so the credit lines actually fit.

Configure Waveform Background

View > Configure Waveform Background... opens a small preferences screen for one specific thing: the background color behind every waveform in the app. The colorful waveform bands (blue / cyan / green / yellow / red) sit on top of this background.

The Configure Waveform Background screen with the sine-wave preview, color picker, hex field, and reset button.

The screen has three controls:

• A boxed sine-wave preview that updates live as you change the color, so you can see how the multicolor waveform reads against your choice.
• A color picker for picking a color with a swatch.
• A hex field for typing or pasting an exact hex value (six-digit, with or without the leading #).
• A Reset to recommended button that puts the background back to the default.

The recommended default is #20262f, a cool dark slate chosen so the rainbow waveform bands stay clearly readable without leaving the app's dark aesthetic.

The chosen color is remembered between sessions. It only lives on this machine - if you install the app on a second computer, the second copy starts with the recommended default and you can pick a different color there if you want.

Reference: menu structure