Re: [orca-list] OpenOffice problem

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey Michael.

Would you mind opening a bug for this?

Thanks!
--joanie

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:43 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have found a couple of issues with openoffice writer and orca. The one 
> seems very reproduceable but the other seems less reliable. They both 
> relate to the same thing.
>
> Problem one: When I am writing a list using roman numerals (eg. (I), 
> (II), etc) openoffice does autocomplete. If I press backspace when 
> openoffice puts one in I find speech says nothing and Braille doesn't 
> reflect the change. See below for the example I have used to test orca a 
> few times to reproduce this. It seems present in orca 2.30.1 and also in 
> current git (updated a few minutes ago).
>
> Problem two: Again when openoffice adds its autocomplete roman numeral I 
> press backspace to remove it and then openoffice seems to become very 
> unstable. Last time I got it to reproduce this I then pressed j and 
> backspace a couple of times and openoffice crashed. I also have seen 
> openoffice crash when I immediately press enter after the autocomplete 
> of a roman numeral but when I last tried that one it didn't work. I am 
> unsure exactly what versions of orca cause this crash, I don't think I 
> caused it with orca 2.30.1 but I have caused it when running a couple of 
> versions from git (one from a few minutes ago and one from a week or so 
> ago).
>
> I am using debian unstable which I think has openoffice 3.2.0.
>
> Now here is what I was writing to try and reproduce what I thought I had 
> initially seen (sometimes causes problem two, always causes problem 
> one). NOTE: I have included what openoffice fills in as the autocomplete.
>
> (I) Hello world
> (II) Part two
> (III)
>
> Its when the (III) appears I backspace.
>
> I hope this is clear enough to follow. I thought as the two relate to 
> one action it might be best to report both together as they may be related.
>
> Michael Whapples
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