Re: [orca-list] my thoughts/decisions about orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks Mike!

It would be nice to get to the bottom of whether or not it's a
Mozilla/Gecko bug or a libatspi bug. In the meantime, I've committed
your work-around.

Take care.
--joanie

On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 11:25 -0500, Mike Gorse wrote:
> There's something going wrong with AT-SPI caching children. Either Mozilla 
> is sometimes not sending children-changed events when objects are added or 
> removed, or libatspi isn't properly updating its cache. I can't say which 
> for sure--I haven't taken the time to track it down.
>
> This patch to Orca should help in the meantime:
>
> diff --git a/src/orca/scripts/toolkits/Gecko/script.py b/src/orca/scripts/toolkits/Gecko/script.py
> index ae0062f..3955213 100644
> --- a/src/orca/scripts/toolkits/Gecko/script.py
> +++ b/src/orca/scripts/toolkits/Gecko/script.py
> @@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ class Script(default.Script):
>           self.preMouseOverContext = [None, -1]
>           self.inMouseOverObject = False
>
> +        app.setCacheMask(pyatspi.cache.ALL ^ pyatspi.cache.CHILDREN)
> +
>       def activate(self):
>           """Called when this script is activated."""
>           self.savedEnabledBrailledTextAttributes = \
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