Re: [orca-list] Progress bar updates speak when not focused

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Will,

I applied the patch with no errors. Unfortunately, the result was that 
there were no progress bar updates... absolute silence.

I'll try to set aside some time this evening to generate a debug log 
with the patch and see if there is something obvious going on. I'll also 
try to file the bug report.

Thanks for the effort,

dave


On 03/05/2009 11:40 AM, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi David:
>
> Orca currently speaks the progress bar information if the application 
> that owns the progress bar is active.  So, for example, if you've 
> started a download in Firefox and move to OOo, the FF download 
> progress should not be spoken.  If it is being spoken in this case, it 
> is a bug.
>
> However, it sounds as though perhaps you're working in Firefox, start 
> a download, and continue surfing the web.  In this case, the download 
> window no longer has focus, but Firefox is still the active 
> application.  So, Orca is going to happily speak the progress bar 
> information. :-( That sounds like a bug to me and a case we didn't 
> account for.
>
> Please do open a bug.  Please also test out the attached patch.  If it 
> works, attach it to the bug you open and you'll get the credit for 
> being a hero.  :-)  If it doesn't work, just blame me and call me an 
> idiot. I'm used to it.  :-)
>
> Will
>
> David E. Price wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to get a sense of the community's feel about this.
> >
> > Right now, if there is a progress bar in existence in any open 
> > program, I get the update messages spoken every 10 seconds. I believe 
> > that progress bar updates should only be spoken when the 
> > window/dialog containing the progress bar has focus. To me, it is 
> > annoying that, whenever I want to download something and continue 
> > working, I get an update every 10 seconds or I have to go into the 
> > Orca preferences to turn off the updates. I believe that requiring 
> > the progress bar's window to have focus before any updates are 
> > indicated can allow users to avoid a cluttered feedback environment.
> >
> > I'll file the RFE this weekend unless the rest of the community is 
> > against the idea.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > dave
> >
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