Re: Orca has trouble finding dialogs

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > Aha - bittornado-gui is the package name on Ubuntu.  The thing keeps
> > asking me for a *.torrent file and then pops up a usage dialog and
> > crashes when I press Cancel.  I've never really used a bittorrent
> > before, though, so I might be doing something wrong.
> That's also a problem i had, so i went to a web page with a link that
> pointed me to a bittorrent file and tried to click on it. I got the
> "Open  with" dialog in Firefox and decided to open the file with
> Bittornado. After hitting the OK button to get out of the dialog, the
> bittornado client came up, but i couldn't access it and so on, because i
> had to reach a dialog where it would ask me to save the session
> somewhere, and that dialog couldn't be accessed. I couldn't reach the
> dialog.

Very odd.  I don't know what's going on here.  A possibility (though I'm
not even 50% sure) is that Python clients like the btdownloadgui app for
bittornado might not be properly initializing threads or handling the
Python GIL correctly.  As a result, when the AT-SPI support is loaded
and used, it might be causing a deadlock somewhere.  The same thing
might be happening with the freeloader client, which is also a Python
app.

In any case, if I run the btdownloadgui by hand, I notice that it core
dumps.  Seems like a troubled app.

> > > > > OpenOffice.org agenda wizard, there must be a dialog present because
> > > > > there pops up a read-only template and there appears to be form fields
> > > > > which you can fill in, and those must be in a dialog that Orca can't
> > > > > reach.
> > > > I'd like to check this out.  How do you bring up the agenda wizard?
> > > 1. make sure you have the Java runtime and the java access bridge
> > > installed.
> > > 2. Go to File|Wizards and from there choose "agenda..." There should pop
> > > up a dialog box where you can change settings for things as participants
> > > in a meeting and so on and so forth, but Orca can't see that dialog,
> > > only the template of the agenda. It doesn't matter if you minimize
> > > windows that could be in the way. Orca doesn't reach that dialog anyway.
> >
> > Hmmm...very interesting.  This is probably worth filing as a bug.
>
> Should i file it against Orca or Openoffice.org?

I'd say start with Orca.  We can always move it to OOo if we think the
problem lies there.

Thanks!

Will