Re: [orca-list] The pronunciation dictionary destroys my user settings

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hermann:

This definitely helps a lot!  Thank you so much for the detail.  The 
problem is that it looks like you created a pronunciation for the " 
character, which resulted in us producing bad code in 
~/.orca/user-settings.py:

orca.pronunciation_dict.setPronunciation(""", "zitat")

This is our fault.  I opened a bug for this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523642

For getting stack traces, the thing you can do is run Orca in a 
gnome-terminal and save the output to a file.  Something like this 
should work in a bash shell:

orca > orca.out 2>&1

Thanks!

Will

Hermann wrote:
> am Mo 17. Mär 2008 um 22:15:46 schrieb Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>:
> > > I wanted to change some pronunciations of Orca by using the dictionary  
> > > in the settings dialogue.
> > > The result was a damage of my Orca settings, so that I had to restore  
> > > them completely, including my changed laptop keyboard layout. Only the  
> > > orca-customizations.py remained as it is.
> > Very strange.  I just tried making three definitions.  They worked as  
> > soon as I pressed the OK button to save them, and they also worked when  
> > I stopped and restarted Orca.
> >
> > Did you save your damaged settings file?  It would be great if you saved  
> > it so we could take a look at it.
>
> I didn't, but I can reproduce the crash. So I created 4 files: My 
> original settings, the status after having set up the pronunciation 
> changes, the status after restart of the preferences dialog where the 
> changes had gone and finally the status after having restarted Orca, 
> where everything is broken. I attach them in a zip file.
>
> > > Restarting the settings dialogue shows that the changes have gone;  
> > > restarting Orca causes the crash.
> > Oh dear.  :-(  Did you get a stack trace?  In these kinds of cases,  
> > getting a stack trace and any other useful information will help us  
> > understand the cause of the problem.
>
> What do you mean with a stack trace? There was no message, but when 
> starting the preferences from a desktop environment, you cannot see any 
> messages at all. Should I restart Orca from a Gnome terminal?
> Hermann