Re: Orca Speaking blank lines

[Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier <FDMA once es>]

Hi to all

Regarding blank lines I would like a user setting in the UI to enable/disable announcing blank and perhaps 
another ways such as beeps.
By default I think the "blank" should be spoken at blank lines for a beginner profile and by default no 
speech for blank lines in a "advanced profile" anyway this setting should be configurable in each profile.

To do not confuse with the end of a document, Orca could announce when arrives to the end of a document.

Regards,

Javier.

---Mensaje original-----
> De: orca-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] En nombre de Nolan Darilek
> Enviado el: miércoles, 01 de noviembre de 2006 18:58
> Para: orca-list gnome org
> Asunto: Orca Speaking blank lines
>
>
> Looks like I finally have a working Ubuntu/Orca install. Now I'm  
> trying to make it into a usable development/recording 
> environment for  
> some projects I'm undertaking.
>
> But, anyway, I experienced a minor annoyance for which I have a  
> patch, but before submitting it to bugzilla I want to make sure a)  
> there isn't some other way/good reason for things being done this  
> way, and b) that I've in fact made the change in the best place for  
> it. :) When editing documents, I was annoyed by Orca not speaking  
> blank lines, because when I press a key and don't receive any  
> feedback I generally assume that nothing happens--I've reached the  
> top/bottom of the list/whatever and focus doesn't wrap, there is no  
> valid use for that key, etc.
>
> I went to default.py, and noticed that the sayLine() method is  
> specifically written to ignore blank lines. So I initialized the  
> default voice outside of the "if len(line):" clause, added an "else"  
> and spoke the phrase "blank". Now I've got semi-functional speaking  
> of blank lines (though there's weirdness in OpenOffice where "blank"  
> is sometimes spoken twice, or in addition to the new line.)
>
> Have I implemented this change in the correct place, or is there a  
> better way to implement speaking of blank lines when they're arrowed  
> through in text areas? It's a feature of all other 
> screen-readers I'm  
> aware of, so that the docstring specifically mentions that blank  
> lines are ignored has me thinking that perhaps I've implemented this  
> in the wrong place. :)
>
> Thanks.
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