Re: [orca-list] OpenOffice Calc Breaks Orca!

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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An update to this, things don't look quite as bad as first thought.  I
was able to open other XLS and ODS files with no further problems but
this one in particular locks things up.  I may have to chock it up to
a corrupt file.  I'll have to take a look the next time I'm in
windows.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:27:39AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> When I try and open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in OpenOffice Calc,
> I constantly lose speech.  At this point I don't have any logs to show
> that I know of but it seems to happen whenever I right click an XLS
> type file and chose open with Open Office Calc; it begins loading the
> document and then speech stops every time.  The only way out is to
> press ctrl-alt-\ to kill my X session.  When it is in this catatonic
> state, I can hit other random keys on the keyboard and they are echoed
> but I can't do anything else; I can't even restart Orca.  When I kill
> the X session, I can restart all over again and then OO tells me the
> recent crash and offers to recover the file.  I go through those
> mothions but still no bueno.
>
> This is using the latest svn pull for Orca, at-spi, gail, atk, yelp,
> etc. and OO 2.4 from the devian archives for Lenny testing.  I can
> open an empty document in Calc but just can't open this XLS one.
>
> Anyone else experiencing this? I used to be able to do this with no
> problems in the past when I was using dropline gnome on slackware.
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