Re: [orca-list] New About dialog



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The F7 trick sounds easy enough.  I'd seen F7 for dealing with Mozilla
stuff but didn't realize or remember that would affect other
situations.  Thanks for the tip.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:50:06AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
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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