Re: [orca-list] Preferences dialog does not close anymore

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Sa 08. Mär 2008 um 17:19:42 schrieb Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>:
> I haven't experienced this.  My suspicion is that there might be a bad  
> line in your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py  
> file.  If you try something like moving your ~/.orca directory to a safe  
> place and then re-running Orca, do you still experience the problem?

I've tested it again, and now it has gone. Really don't know what caused 
this? I updated Espeak from the source and installed the very latest 
Orca from SVN, that's all I did. I changed punctuation in the general 
preferences and rechecked the table reading mode, because it sometimes 
switches, without any reason, from "line" to "cell"; I wrote about it. 
Clicking OK, caused Orca to save the settings, but not to close the 
dialog. I repeated this several times, same results. Two hours later, I 
retried it and now it seems to work properly; I'm really confused.
[...]
> Can you tell me more about your Orca environment?  For example, do you  
> do things such as edit your ~/.orca/user-settings.py file?  

The only case I do this is when changing the debug output mode in order 
to send debug.out.
I lately changed my orca-customizations.py to adjust the length of 
"large objects" as Joanie has recommended in a comment to my feature 
request on Bugzilla.

> Do you  
> download/install Orca from trunk?  

Yes. I started it, since I wanted to check out some new features mainly 
applied to FF3.

> Do you apply patches that are  
> attached to bugs, but not committed yet?  

No I didn't.

> All of these things leave  
> plenty of room for error and can cause catastrophic failure if not done  
> correctly.  :-(
>
> To help us better analyze what's causing the issues, you can do the  
> usual debug.out thing that you've helped us with in the past.  In  
> addition, if you run orca from the command line and save any messages  
> that might be output, we should be able to make some forward progress.

OK, I notice this for the future. I'm familiar with sending debug files, 
but I didn't save start up messages till now.
Hermann