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Bombo: user feedback - label legibility + keyboard focus stealing #6

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@Hornfisk

User feedback (v1.0.1)

A user tried Bombo, liked the sounds ("something I use regularly"), and raised two usability issues. Verbatim, lightly trimmed:

The text labels are a bit too small and hard to read.

The GUI captures my DAW keyboard commands. When I am editing Bombo, I am unable to start/stop playback in my DAW. I have seen this problem in other plugins. [...] the problem seems to come from using an HTML based design.

Items to tackle

  • Label legibility — text labels are too small / hard to read. Bump size and/or contrast.
  • Keyboard focus stealing — when the editor is focused, keypresses (spacebar transport, etc.) are swallowed and never reach the host, so DAW start/stop stops working. The reporter guessed "HTML-based design," but Bombo is JUCE/C++ — the real cause is the editor grabbing key focus and not forwarding unhandled keypresses back to the host. Investigate JUCE keyboard-focus handling (e.g. not consuming keys the plugin doesn't use / returning them to the host).

Other small items (add as we find them)

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