Re: [orca-list] Dragging and dropping with orca

["" <krister kristersplace ws>]

On 29 May 2007 at 22:39, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> How will this differ from cutting (Ctrl+X) and pasting (Ctrl+V)
> though? What could you do with drag and drop that you cannot do with
> cut and paste?

There are situations, such as in certain audio editing and music software wher you are to 
manipulate widgets and such and in that case, you can't copy/paste. Normally, sliders are 
acted upon without one having to do things such as drag/drop, but in certain cases, at least in 
the other os when the screen reader can't recognize the widget as other than a graphic, but 
you for a fact know it is a knob or slider, you simply have to drag/drop to act upon this widget. 
You may also be required to drag to scrub in a wave form to find audio that you want to edit. I 
don't know if there are programs like Acid Pro in Linux, but there if you want to put an audio 
loop on a track you have to drag it there. No copying available. These programs may not be 
accessible today, but let's for a moment play with the thought that they revealed all their 
contents through At-Spi, only there were no keyboard commands for manipulating sound, 
widgets etc. It would be very handy to be able to drag/drop, not only with the standard mouse 
keys but with shift, alt and ctrl and the same goes for clicking.

In other cases such as in fax programs or others, you *must* drag a recipient from one list to 
another and there's simply no copy/paste option available. I don't know how common this is 
in Linux, but i've seen it elsewhere and it's from that experience i talk.
-- 
/Krister