Re: [orca-list] New About dialog

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

The about dialog is a stock widget provided by GTK+ -- we provide the text and it does the rest.  
Unfortunately, it looks like the text areas are set up to be read-only without navigation turned on.  If you 
press F7 to turn caret navigation in one of these areas, you should be able to navigate through all the text. 
 I'm not quite sure how to enable that by default for these widgets since they are provided by the higher 
level about dialog widget Orca is now using.

Note that we do have a general feature enhancement request in for GNOME to say "hey, always turn on caret 
navigation."  If we can get that one solved, we won't have to keep manually enabling it on a per-case basis.  
For now, however, you need to know about the F7 trick.

Will

On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> Hey, Just wanted to give my initial impressions of the new About
> dialog for Orca.  I like it.  It all speaks when tabbing around.  I do
> have some questions concerning label text such as what is used in the
> dialog.  It appears that a couple of those labels are multiline but if
> you want to cursor around in there and read word by word or line by
> line, that you can only move left and right through the words but if I
> press up or down arrow, it bumps me to the previous or next label
> control.  Flat review works OK in the control  Is the way it is
> designed? Can't one use the arrow keys to move vertically in label
> controls?  In MS windows, the closest thing for multi line reading of
> static text would be a read-only edit control or possibly rich-edit
> control for larger things.  I usually would see a read-only edit box
> for all the "About" text and follow that with the buttons.
>
> Make sense?
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