[orca-list] question about Orca and something called Processing

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Greetings!

A new Linux colleague and friend is trying to develop an application, or 
at least the use of an application, that will show data in ways useful 
to blind as well as sighted people.  She's using something called 
Processing, whose relevant material and files are at

<http://www.processing.org>

I seem to have installed what I need to run the software.

I cannot run this software using the text console with Speakup.  I must 
run it using Orca.  When I go into the relevant subdirectory and run the 
command "./processing", Orca's speedch disappears.  I understood my 
friend to say that the screen looks like it's supposed to.  Without 
Orca, of course, I have no idea of what to do there.  When she tried 
this using Orca on her machine (for muy sake, not hers), she got the 
same silence.

Has anybody here used this software?  Does anybody have an idea why Orca 
kicks out, or what I might do to try to fix this?  I gather this 
software's quite complex, and I know virtually nothing about it, but I'm 
sort of hoping there may be some generic thing connected with using Orca 
that may show the way to paradise and accessibility.  (I especially 
appreciate my friend's endeavor to make non-visual access a priority, 
and want to help her if I can.)

Thanks for any advice.

Al