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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

David E. Price wrote:
> Hi, Will,
>
> I applied the patch with no errors. Unfortunately, the result was that 
> there were no progress bar updates... absolute silence.

This might be due to a Firefox bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561965

If you Alt+Tab away from the window and back to it, do the progress bars 
start presenting themselves?

Will

> 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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