Re: [orca-list] Orca Find

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I have to admit I don't really make much use of find features in screen 
readers, but my natural expectation would be that it would move focus to 
the element containing the search text. In the case of a text control I 
am less sure whether I would say it should move the cursor to the 
position of the text, IE. that is what the application's in built search 
facility should be for and should we duplicate it?

Now for those who do actually use the find feature, is the current one 
using flat review of valuable? Would it be worth having the two 
different types of find in orca?

Just my thoughts.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Storm.
>
> > with it. Is it broken?
> It has it's occasional quirks, but it's not broken to my knowledge.
>
> >   I first was checking in a file for 3 # characters.
> I just tried this and it worked.
>
> >   I could have easily done it with the find dialog built in to Gedit,
> > but I decided to use Orca's version instead. It didn't move the cursor
> > to the new location,
> It's not supposed to move the cursor. If everyone thinks it should, then
> that is an RFE. But Orca Find is a flat review feature. It attempts to
> locate the string you provide by looking at:
>
> 1. what's on screen
> 2. in the focused/active window
>
> So if your '###' were not visible, Orca Find should not find it. And if
> there were a visible toolbar button which contained '###' Orca Find
> should find it. And if the '###' is visible in the text widget in gedit,
> and if gedit was focused immediately before you launched find, Orca Find
> should find it. And if it fails to do so, then that's a bug.
>
> >   and after the second attempt it said the string was not found.
> Are you sure the ### was visible at the time and that the gedit window
> was the active window?
>
> >   So, I created a file with:
> > This is some text
> > this is more text
> > this is even more text
> > and did a search for the word text.
> I did this and it worked as expected.
>
> >   It said the word some, not text,
> That would be a bug. If you can make it happen, please file it. Also
> please capture a screen shot if possible.
>
> >   but still did not move  the location of the cursor
> Because it's a flat review feature, it would not move the cursor, but if
> you continued to use flat review you should (hopefully) discover that
> the flat review context position was the match.
>
> > So, am I missing some critical concept, or should I be filing a bug?
> Possibly both.<smile>  Having read the above, please let me know what
> you discover.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie