Re: [orca-list] Problems with laptop layout

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> I want to learn to make scripts for orca again and I have got many ideas for
> new programs in linux. I want to migrate to Linux and uninstall WinXP on my
> home laptop. I'll talk about the task needed in linux to kill windows

Awesome! 

> Delia says hello for you. She tried to improve my english but I have no
> time, jeje

Tell her "Hi" back for me.  I haven't worked on learning Spanish, so
we're even.

> > It sounds like the "Say All" operation is being invoked rather than the
> character review operation.  When I look in the Orca sources for laptop mode
> I >see that SayAll is bound to the semicolon and character review is bound
> to the comma.
>
>
> In spanish keyboard distirbution in "," key is ";" on shift. If you press
> shift+, you get ; character.
>
> I don't know if in Spanish american keyboard the ";" character is in the
> same key of "," character.

Ah!  This is indeed a problem.  I think the key mapping in Orca will end
up treating ',' and ';' as the same key if they are on the same physical
key on the keyboard.  So, things will get confused and something will
end up taking precedence.  It looks like SayAll is taking precedence
over character review.  Ugh.  This might be a bug, but I'm not sure how
to fix it.  :-(

For a workaround, you should be able to override the key bindings using
the "Key Bindings" tab in the Orca preferences GUI.

Hope this helps,

Will