PadForge v5.2.2

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A MIDI slot starts after PadForge restarts the MIDI service, and the Mappings table works from the keyboard. This release fixes those two defects. Everything else is 5.2.1.

4.5.3 and later offer this release from the Updates card in Settings. 4.5.2 and older need one manual download.

Fixed

• A MIDI slot no longer stays failed while MIDI runs. When a MIDI slot's first try hung, PadForge restarted the Windows MIDI service, as designed, and then gave up on the new service in the moment it answered. The slot stayed failed, and the status line said MIDI was not running. A newly started service answers after up to 10 seconds, and PadForge waited exactly 10. PadForge now waits for that answer, tries the slot again once MIDI answers, and waits for the service to finish loading before it creates the port. A slot whose first try hangs now starts within about 30 seconds. The hang followed a PadForge that was closed by force with a MIDI port open.
• The Mappings table works from the keyboard and with screen readers. Tab skipped the table, going from Clear All straight to the status bar, so a screen reader user could not reach a single row. Each row is now a Tab stop and reads its output and its source. Enter or Space opens a row and closes it again. On a row, the arrows, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, letters and digits do nothing, the rule the tab's closed pickers already follow, so testing a keyboard mapping with PadForge in front never changes the table. A click on a row works as before.

Known limitations

The known limitations of 5.2.0 still apply.

Full changelog: v5.2.1...v5.2.2