Re: [orca-list] Adding new pronunciations causes a hang

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Yeah!  Good news and thanks for testing so quickly, Halim.  If Vítor 
Oliveira or Javier can test this and have positive results, I'll open a 
bug and get the patch in.

Will

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi Will,
> Thanks for your fast response and (great work).
> your patch seems to elminate the problem on my machine.
> I could create a new entry in my empty pron.-list.
> Thanks
> halim
>
>
> On Do, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:31:03 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > I noticed some messages being sent to the console when trying to
> > reproduce this bug.  I still cannot reproduce it, but I made a patch to
> > get rid of the messages.  Perhaps they are tickling something on your
> > machines that's not being tickled on my machines?
> >
> > Attached is the patch.  Save it as foo.txt in your svn directory and
> > then run:
> >
> > patch -p0 < foo.txt
> >
> > It should make changes to default.py.  Then build/install orca and
> > rerun.  If the problem goes away, please let me know.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:53 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hi All:
> > >
> > > I'm starting a new thread.  Please respond to this thread for this 
> > > subject only.  Please don't hijack other threads by doing a reply all on 
> > > some random message and then changing the subject.  It ends up getting 
> > > very confusing.
> > >
> > > It has been reported that adding new pronunciations causes a hang in 
> > > Orca.  I have not seen this nor can I reproduce it with repeated 
> > > testing.  As such, this is going to be hard for me to track down.
> > >
> > > The latest test case that seems to work for at least one user is the 
> > > following:
> > >
> > >     1. Disable braille support in the braille page.
> > >     2. Click OK and restart orca.
> > >     3. Activate orca's preferences, locate the pronunciation page,
> > >        tab to the new entry button and press the space key.
> > >
> > >     The result is that orca stops completely and I need to press
> > >     ctrl+alt+backspace to restart gnome session.
> > >
> > > Halim has also reported a similar hang to me in private e-mail.  I 
> > > cannot reproduce this at all, so I'm going to need some help here.
> > >
> > > Please see if you can reproduce this issue.  If you can, please take 
> > > note of the exact things you did to cause it to happen.  In addition, if 
> > > you can reproduce it, please try reproducing it with svnversion 4432 by 
> > > pulling svnversion 4432 using the following command:
> > >
> > > svn co -r 4432 http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca-4432
> > >
> > > This will create an orca-4432 directory that you can go into and 
> > > build/install orca from svnversion 4432.  If you don't know how to 
> > > build/install orca from svn, you can try the instructions at 
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.  If you don't feel 
> > > comfortable with the instructions, though, don't do it.  You might end 
> > > up breaking your installation of Orca if you don't know what you're doing.
> > >
> > > In addition, if you can reproduce the problem, please also create a 
> > > debug file using the instructions at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Debugging.
> > >
> > > Finally, please be very specific about the operating system and version 
> > > you are using, what "gnome-about --version" gives you, which version of 
> > > orca you are using (running "svnversion" in your svn directory will be 
> > > very useful), etc.  When I cannot reproduce a problem, all this 
> > > information can help me deduce what the problem might be.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Will
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>
> > Index: src/orca/default.py
> > ===================================================================
> > --- src/orca/default.py (revision 4456)
> > +++ src/orca/default.py (working copy)
> > @@ -2828,7 +2828,8 @@
> >                      newRow = table.getRowAtIndex(index)
> >                      newCol = table.getColumnAtIndex(index)
> >  
> > -                    if (newRow != oldRow) or (oldParent != newParent):
> > +                    if (newRow >= 0) \
> > +                       and ((newRow != oldRow) or (oldParent != newParent)):
> >                          # Get the header information.  In Java Swing, the
> >                          # information is not exposed via the description
> >                          # but is instead a header object, so we fall back
> > @@ -2853,7 +2854,8 @@
> >                                          + rolenames.rolenames[\
> >                                          pyatspi.ROLE_ROW_HEADER].speech
> >                              utterances.append(text)
> > -                    if (newCol != oldCol) or (oldParent != newParent):
> > +                    if (newCol >= 0) \
> > +                       and ((newCol != oldCol) or (oldParent != newParent)):
> >                          # Don't speak Thunderbird column headers, since
> >                          # it's not possible to navigate across a row.
> >                          topName = self.getTopLevelName(newLocusOfFocus)
>
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